Love is everything it's cracked up to be
It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building.
Modernism is about space. Postmodernism is about communication. You should do what turns you on.
As an architect, I try to be guided not by habit but by a conscious sense of the past-by precedent, thoughtfully considered. . . As an artist, I frankly write about what I like in architecture: complexity and contradiction. From what we find we like-what we are easily attracted to-we can learn much of what we really are.
When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture.
Disharmony that comes from circumstances that are valid has tension, poignancy, quality, and beauty.
The Italian landscape has always harmonized the vulgar and the Vitruvian: the contorni around the duomo, the portiere'S laundry across the padrone's portone, Supercortemaggiore against the Romanesque apse. Naked children have never played in our fountains, and I. M. Pei will never be happy on Route 66.
The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing.
MPU was a great platform for emotional drama and Australian stories.
Red Letter Christians believe in the doctrines of the Apostle's Creed, are convinced that the Scriptures have been inspired by the Holy Spirit, and make having a personal transforming relationship with the resurrected Christ the touchtone of their faith.
Most of us are so busy trying to manage, maintain, or even just survive our life situation, that we don't make time to focus on what's most important - our LIFE.