Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations.
When I got to Los Angeles, I started building cabins in peoples' yards, building post-and-beam structures and cutting the joinery for those.
Before I was 20, I was the leading architect of the Southwest.
In science, as in business, there must be structures that ensure the well endowed do not use their position to block competition.
When we think of globalization we are thinking in part of structures and institutions that have been developed over time and that have allowed us to become more interdependent and interrelated. But the development, the extraordinary development, of those structures and institutions has not fundamentally transformed our humanity. We are still those animals with fears and anxieties and insecurities in the face of death and dread and disappointment and disease.
Since I was a kid, I liked construction.
I studied at a time when buildings were sterile things, and their creators were hands-off people - super-intelligent people, but you felt they didn't love the stuff buildings are made from.
If you look at the Earth without architecture, it's sometimes a little bit unpleasant. So there is this basic human need to do shelter in the broadest sense of the word, whether it's a movie theater or a simple log cabin in the mountains. This is the core of architecture: To provide a space for human beings.
Experiences aren't pornographic; only images and representations - structures of the imagination - are.
… ideas are structures built over time, each part added by a new generation.
I graduated from Wesleyan University with a B.A. in art. I was really headed toward an architecture degree, but when I did the requirements for the major, I realized I was more interested in how people live in buildings than in making buildings. I was more interested in the interactions that happened inside the structures.
Mathematics catalogues everything that is not self-contradictory; within that vast inventory, physics is an island of structures rich enough to contain their own beholders.
Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.
We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.
Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects.
Institutions are more powerful than men.
If I see three oranges, I have to juggle. And if I see two towers, I have to walk.
Personally, one of the greatest sources of inspiration for my work has been architecture. I've had the chance to see so many exquisite structures, whether they are historical monuments or modern commercial premises.
I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.
Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
I was good at football and cricket at school. My dad said, 'Son, be an architect,' and I came to Melbourne passionate about becoming an architect.
I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family.
Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical reactions necessary for life.
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
Supramolecular chemistry is the chemistry of the intermolecular bond, covering the structures and functions of the entities formed by association of two or more chemical species.
