“All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.” – Philip Johnson
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“Goethe, who in speaking of Paganini hit on a definition of the duende: ‘A mysterious force that everyone feels and no philosopher has explained.’ So, then, the duende is a force not a labour, a struggle not a thought. I heard an old maestro of the guitar say: ‘The duende is not in the throat: the duende surges up, inside, from the soles of the feet.’ Meaning, it’s not a question of skill, but of a style that’s truly alive: meaning, it’s in the veins: meaning, it’s of the most ancient culture of immediate creation.” – Garcia Lorca, Theory and Play Of The Duende 1933
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Le Corbusier
/in Quotation /by Charles Holden“Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.” > Le Corbusier Read more
Anais Nin
/in Quotation /by Charles Holden“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” – Anais Nin
Philip Johnson
/in Quotation /by Charles Holden“All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.” – Philip Johnson
Garcia Lorca, Theory and Play Of The Duende
/in Quotation /by Charles Holden“Goethe, who in speaking of Paganini hit on a definition of the duende: ‘A mysterious force that everyone feels and no philosopher has explained.’ So, then, the duende is a force not a labour, a struggle not a thought. I heard an old maestro of the guitar say: ‘The duende is not in the throat: the duende surges up, inside, from the soles of the feet.’ Meaning, it’s not a question of skill, but of a style that’s truly alive: meaning, it’s in the veins: meaning, it’s of the most ancient culture of immediate creation.” – Garcia Lorca, Theory and Play Of The Duende 1933
John Ruskin The Seven Lamps of Architecture, 1880
/in Quotation /by Charles Holden“…do but design with the owl’s eyes first, and you will gain the falcon’s afterwards.” – John Ruskin The Seven Lamps of Architecture, 1880
R.M.Schindler, Architect “Care of the Body”, 1926
/in Quotation /by Charles Holden“An interesting plainness is the most difficult and most precious thing to achieve.” – R.M.Schindler, Architect “Care of the Body”, 1926