Adaptation Quote by John Ruskin Download Open image “Architecture ... the adaptation of form to resist force.” — John Ruskin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adaptation Architecture Force Form
Forms in nature are a byproduct of a reciprocal action between a given material and the conditions of the environment. But in architecture, the… — Neri Oxman Copy Share Image
Architecture is the constant fight between man and nature, the fight to overwhelm nature, to possess it. The first act of architecture is to… — Mario Botta Copy Share Image
Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up. — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for children, young… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
Architecture is a hypothesis about the future that holds that subsequent change will be confined to that part of the design space encompassed by… — Brian Foote Copy Share Image
“Architecture’s most kissable aspect is its surface. Space is hard to get a hold on. Structure has historically been inadequately pliant. Geometry—well, who really… — Sylvia Lavin Copy Share Image
I don't think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
Somehow, architecture alters the way we think about the world and the way we behave. Any serious architecture, as a litmus test, has to… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own… — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
“Occult Theft,--Theft which hides itself even from itself, and is legal, respectable, and cowardly,--corrupts the body and soul of man, to the last fibre… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Life is a magic vase filled to the brim, so made that you cannot dip from it nor draw from it; but it overflows… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I am far more provoked at being thought foolish by foolish people, than pleased at being thought sensible by sensible people; and the average… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“You may trust to the truth of my sympathy; but you must remember that I am engaged in the investigation of enormous religious and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
And remember, child, that nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship; or nobly, which is done in pride. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice; and this the more, because… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“The global population of Earth are involved in the following corporate government experiments: The long term effects of - 1. Nuclear bomb fallout radiation.… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some… — Edward Einhorn Copy Share Image
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My familiarity with the successful use of very long steel ropes for mining purposes naturally suggested their adaptation to the new purpose of deep… — Alexander Agassiz Copy Share Image
The survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature, but the fittest are rarely the strong. The fittest are those endowed with… — Dave Smalley Copy Share Image
The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The world may not be ready yet for the film equivalent of books on tape, but this peculiar phenomenon has arrived in the form… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The tendency for depression to repeat reflects the normal default settings of a plastic mood system that is open to experience. The unfortunate consequence… — Jonathan Rottenberg Copy Share Image
“You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
