Accumulation Quote by Manuel De Landa

To write the true natural history of the world, we should need to be able to follow it from within. It would thus appear…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

It struck me that our history is contained in the home we live in, that we are shaped by the ability of these simple…

— Achmat Dangor

Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of old? Where else can we find such unity of material, construction…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of the old. Where else can we find such unity of material,…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

One of the questions that always puzzled human history is, what are we, and everything around us, made of.

— Ashoke Sen

Whenever when I sit all alone reminiscing about those people that build up my world, then your thought come to my mind instantly because…

— Usman Ismaheel

One begins to think with that new building block, rather than with littler pieces. And finally, the things which seem like elements dissolve, and…

— Christopher Alexander

“The geological layers of our lives rest so tightly one on top of the other that we always come up against earlier events in…

— Bernard Schlink

I have always been fascinated by structure and by exploring its possibilities. Throughout my life as a designer and maker, my structures have progressively…

— David Trubridge

“Seth and I used to like to picture how our world would look to visitors someday, maybe a thousand years in the future, after…

— Karen Thompson Walker

We are material creatures who spend much of our lives on material pursuits (even building a cathedral or writing a novel requires stone and…

— Virginia Postrel

From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences.

— Christopher Alexander