Architecture Quote by P. K. Page Download Open image “It is the stress that holds the structure up.” — P. K. Page ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architecture Stress Structure
If an architect wants to strengthen a decrepit arch, he increases the load laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me. — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
When you're able to have foundational pieces in place it allows you the opportunity to build upon those foundational pieces. — Matthew Slater Copy Share Image
The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US. — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
When a house is tottering to its fall, The strain lies heaviest on the weakest part, One tiny crack throughout the structure spreads, And… — Ovid Copy Share Image
Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
“structure has been defined as ‘any assemblage of materials which is intended to sustain loads’, and the study of structures is one of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Stress is like an iceberg. We can see one-eighth of it above, but what about whats below. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If we but give it time, a work of art 'can rap and knock and enter our souls' and re-align us - all our… — P. K. Page Copy Share Image
The bones of my architecture are very much related to the structure, to the physical fact of how a building can stand up; it's… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to,… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image
The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place. — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
A wiki works best where you're trying to answer a question that you can't easily pose, where there's not a natural structure that's known… — Ward Cunningham Copy Share Image
Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived. — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
