“I would advise you to wait a while until your enthusiasm for your project has boiled over. Afterwards, you may return and consider it more carefully, when your judgment is no longer swayed by fondness for your design but guided by calm reason.” Leon Battista Alberti [1404-1472] Italian humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher and cryptographer; he epitomized the Renaissance man
author Archives - studio of Glenn Williams Architect NCARB
“If architects focus only on compositional methods as means without ends, the ends will certainly be determined by forces outside of architecture – by those economic forces we find so prominent within the profession today, masquerading as ‘fashion’ and ‘style.” – – Robert McCarter [b. about 1953] American architect, author and educator
“Well-building hath three conditions: Commodity, Firmness and Delight.” – – Sir Henry Wotton [1568-1639] English author, diplomat and politician, writing in Elements of Architecture, adapting Vitruvius, Bk. 1. chapter iii
Recent Comments