Accord Quote by Christopher Alexander

There is a precarious balance to the life of a building. It has nothing to do with its age, or the beauty of its…

— Natsuhiko Kyogoku

I believe buildings are alive, and when you want to make a change, you have to change in the same symphony.

— Benedetta Tagliabue

A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are…

— Rem Koolhaas

There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great…

— Christopher Alexander

We either live or die based on how we live in cities, and our society is either going to be great or not based…

— David Simon

Only if we are capable of dwelling, only then can we build

— Martin Heidegger

In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal; but in…

— Henry David Thoreau

Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom…

— Plato

A building is not just a place to be but a way to be.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Everything lives and lasts by the inner necessity of its being, by its own nature's need.

— Richard Wagner

“with cities as with life, for one moment we are pottering about our errands as usual and the next we are dying, and our…

— Mohsin Hamid