Architecture Quotes

Architecture is a continuing dialogue between generations which creates an environment across time.

- Vincent Scully -

Why can’t we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical, straight, unbending, only at right angles – and functional?

- Charles, Prince of Wales -

To be an architect is to possess an individual voice speaking a generally understood language of form.

- Robert A. M. Stern -

The materials of city planning are sky, space, trees, steel and cement in that order and in that hierarchy.

- Le Corbusier -

Buildings should be good neighbours.

- Paul Thiry -

Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.

- Frank Lloyd Wright -

Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of transforming human aspirations into habitable and meaningful space.

- Arthur Erickson -

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

- Mies van der Rohe -

When you look on one of your contemporary ‘good copies’ of historical remains, ask yourself the question: Not what style, but in what civilization is this building? And the absurdity, vulgarity, anachronism and solecism of the modern structure will be revealed to you in a most startling fashion.

- Louis H. Sullivan -

No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

- John Ruskin -

Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect.

- Walter Gropius -

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.

- Mies van der Rohe -

An arch never sleeps.

- Hindu proverb -

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls,

but in the space within to be lived in.

- Lao-Tzu -

Good architecture lets nature in.

- Mario Pei -

Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in.

- Leonard Baskin -

Early in life I had to choose between arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.

- Frank Lloyd Wright -

No house should ever be on a hill, or on anything. It should be of the hill. Hill and house should live together, each the happier for the other.

- Frank Lloyd Wright -

How can we expect our students to become bold and fearless in thought and action if we encase them in sentimental shrines feigning a culture which has long since disappeared?

- Walter Gropius -

Architecture is space structured to serve man and to move him.

- Etienne Gaboury -

Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context – a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.

- Eero Saarinen -

In speculative buildings, which is most of our business, there are really only three chances to make architecture: the lobby or entrance sequence, the top and the elevator cab.

- Chao-Ming Wu -

A house is a machine for living.

- Buckminster Fuller -

A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

- Frank Lloyd Wright -

Genius is personal, decided by fate, but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system.

- Le Corbusier -

Architectural drawing and Architectural plan

Architectural drawing is technical drawing of architecture and drawing for architectural projects. Architectural drawing are a means of communicating ideas, concepts and details, and require drafting skills in modern and traditional methods of architectural drawing.

The term Architectural plans is often used as synonym, but this term has other meaning as well. It can mean a Floor plan; more general any Scale drawing of a structure; the complete Documentation of a building project or the plan to implement an architectural project.

Architectural drawing can includes all architectural contracts and drawings such as plot plans, floor plans, elevations, sections, details, schedules, etc., and any architectural drawing that forms a part of the contract documents. Exceptions can include mechanical, electrical and structural drawings, as well as specialized data that are normally handled by specialists in those fields.

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An architectural plan is a plan for architecture, and the documentation of written and graphic descriptions of the architectural elements of a building project including sketches, drawings and details.

The term “Architectural plan” can have multiple related meaning:

• Plan for an architectural project
• Documentation of written and graphic descriptions of the architectural elements of a building project including sketches, drawings and details. This effort could also includes both the design of new buildings and other structures, as well as the planning for reconstruction of early historic structures.
• Architectural design
• Floor plan
• Scale drawing of a structure. “the plans for City Hall were on file”.

This article will focuss on the general meaning of architectural plan as a plan and documentation for a building project.

An architectural plan is a type of plan for architecture to describe a place or object, or to communicate building or fabrication instructions. It can containing technical architectural drawings and documentation, and are drawn or printed on paper, but they can take the form of a digital file. Their purpose in these disciplines is to accurately and unambiguously capture all the geometric features of a site, building, product or component. Plans can also be for presentation or orientation purposes, and as such are often less detailed versions of the former. The end goal of plans is either to portray an existing place or object, or to convey enough information to allow a builder or manufacturer to realize a design.

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Technical Drawing

Technical drawing is the discipline of creating standardized technical drawing by architects, CAD drafters, design engineers, and related professionals. Technical drawing includes the various fields and technologies underpinning electronics, which has in turn revolutionized the art with new tools in the form of Computer Aided Design (CAD). A technical drawing or engineering drawing is a type of drawing and form of graphic communication, used in the transforming of an idea into physical form. This type of drawing is used to fully and clearly define requirements for engineered items, and is usually created in accordance with standardized conventions for layout, nomenclature, interpretation, appearance (such as typefaces and line styles), size, etc. The process of creating a technical drawing is called drafting or technical drawing. A person who does drafting is known as a drafter. In some areas this person may be referred to as a drafting technician, draftsperson, or draughtsperson. A technical drawing differs from a common drawing by how it is interpreted. A common drawing can hold many purposes and meanings, while a technical drawing is intended to concisely and clearly communicate all needed specifications of a created object or objects.