spatial visualization Quotes

Most architects think in drawings, or did think in drawings; today, they think on the computer monitor. I always tried to think three dimensionally. The interior eye of the brain should be not flat but three dimensional so that everything is an object in space. We are not living in a two-dimensional world.

Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not.

As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a design.

Metrical geometry is thus a part of descriptive geometry, and descriptive geometry is all geometry.

I went to film school, trained as a director, have made a lot of movies, and taken a lot of photographs, so I tend to envision things spatially. As I'm working, I need to have a map of the space. I need to know what's happening in all corners simultaneously.

I think my best skill as an architect is the achievement of hand-to-eye coordination. I am able to transfer a sketch into a model into the building.

The one thing with 3D presentations is I think that 3D itself, whether it's 24 or 48, is at a very interesting point in time.