Structural Balance Quotes

Any work of architecture that does not express serenity is a mistake.

You have your structure, but within it, it gets fuller and you can highlight other parts of the performance.

I'm into the whole song-as-a-piece-of-music thing: if it literally doesn't call for it, if it already has enough stuff going on, then it's okay not to play a solo.

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 also related to geometry and a certain understanding of the architecture in which there is a balance between expression and function.

The scene fascinated me: a round straw hat; the funnel leaning left, the stairway leaning right; the white drawbridge, its railings made of chain; white suspenders crossed on the back of a man below; circular iron machinery; a mast that cut into the sky, completing a triangle.

Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.

Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.

The heel is engineering in itself. This little thing that supports the human weight has to have a precise balance.

In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.