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a676355
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Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.
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dicta
building-industry
cheops
khufu
megalomania
pyramids
building
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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bd3ac5a
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I love doing it. Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.
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passion
love
engineering
profession
building
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Ayn Rand |
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c580de0
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The city was dark except for the building lights that seemed to appear like sores - like bandaids had been ripped off to expose the city's skin.
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dark
expose
ripped-off
sores
lights
building
skin
city
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Markus Zusak |
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d6b99db
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Insofar as we appreciate order, it is when we perceive it as being accompanied by complexity, when we feel that a variety of elements has been brought to order--that windows, doors and other details have been knitted into a scheme that manages to be at once regular and intricate. (p184)
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complexity
chaos
order
building
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Alain de Botton |
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4b41891
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"When the old way of seeing was displaced, a hollowness came into architecture. Our buildings show a constant effort to fill that void, to recapture that sense of life which was once to be found in any house or shed. Yet the sense of place is not to be recovered through any attitude, device, or style, but through the principles of pattern, spirit, and context." - Jonathan Hale, The Old Way of Seeing, 1994"
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new-urbanism
architecture
building
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Jonathan Hale |
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4028e23
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Home development is about wishful thinking. It's about capturing a dream.
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building
house
home
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Barbara Delinsky |
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8c60644
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"The sheer volume of granite, diorite, and alabaster that was cut precisely into statues around Luxor attests to the ancient Egyptians' mastery of their craft. The Greeks and Romans did not sculpt statues in igneous rock. Granite was not fashioned into statues until the development of more modern power tools with steel bits. In "The Materials of Sculpture", Nicholas Penny writes: "Granite had occasionally been worked in shallow relief, for architectural ornament where it was the local building stone, and for the stiff figures of sixteenth-century cavalries in Brittany, but, before the advent of improved metals and power-driven tools in the nineteenth century, the idea of making statues out of it was seldom seriously entertained by sophisticated sculptors."
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igneous-rock
sculpting
architecture
building
statues
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Christopher Dunn |