Aron Faegre

A Ginkgo tree in a garden teaches patience.

It is better to enlighten than merely to shine.

Only if we are capable of dwelling,
only then can we build.

Ligna et lapides docebunt te,
quod a magistris audire non posse.

Working and becoming are one. When the carpenter stops working, the house will stop becoming. Still the axe and stop the growth.

It is of the essence of art to bring back into order the multiplicity of Nature.

Ars imitator naturam in sua operatione.

No quiero cambiar la arquitectura, lo que quiero cambiar es esa sociedad de mierda.

Cracks are where the light comes in.
Treasure them.

Bilden - byldan - bold -
beon - bud - bheu

While in a very remote land I was once invited in for a meal of fruit by a resident. He asked if I could explain how architecture might join the heavens and earth at once. Since I could not answer he sent me on my way hungry.

If a Thing is not moved, no Sound arises.

Deru kugi wa utareru.

It is better to give the fruits of one’s contemplation than merely to contemplate.

Start by doing what’s necessary;
then do what’s possible;
and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Your home is where the heart is, it's not a question about where you were born, or where you belong or the name of the city on your passport.
It's where your heart is.

Gardyn - gardin - gardinus - gher

The Architect has often been compared to that of a Conductor of a Great Orchestra. Today the ORCHESTRA HAS GONE ROGUE! The Owner provides a great score (site and goals) to work from, but each member of the orchestra is trumpeting their own particular concerns as most important: ADA, NFPA, ICC, contractor, subcontractors, engineers, designers, inspectors, plan checkers. and banks. What kind of baton will keep them on the same measure and beat?

God is in the details.

And the details are the people.

Is the inverse of a Civil Engineer,
a civil disobedient engineer?

The reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

The proof of love is in the works.
Where love exists, it works great things.

Lendh + skep =
heath/pasture/prairie + scrape/shape/condition

Architects are con-artists. With nothing more than paper and pencil, they magically con an owner into imagining something will appear before their very eyes; they con a contractor into committing that for a certain price he can make the thing appear; and they con a bank into believing that what will appear has value enough to secure a loan. And if the architect's incantations are sufficient, sure enough - the magic works and a Thing appears.

Engineer - ingenious - ingenium -
genus - generate - gene

Ars sine scientia
nihil est.

I must Create a System or be enslav'd by another Man’s; I will not Reason or Compare:
my business is to Create.

Change is as good as a rest.

Form is never more than
an extension of content.

When you ask a structural engineer if you need more structure, why is the answer always yes?

Arkhein + teks = chief weaver

"Architecture" is a noun, and "Building" is a verb. If "Architecture" were made a verb, what difference would there be in the form of buildings?

Nisi Dominus aedificaverit domum, in vanum laboraverunt qui aedificant eum.

Don’t yell whoa when you’re in a mud hole.

It's intuitive to think that anything complex has to be made by something more complex, but evolution theory says that complexity arises out of simplicity. That's a bottom up picture. I like that idea as a compositional idea, that you can set in place certain conditions and let them grow. It makes composing more like gardening than architecture.

Goethe said Architecture is Frozen Music; if so then Music must be Flowing Architecture. What would happen if the duality were dropped and we built flowing music to live in?

The Architect thinks he designs the building, but in the end, what the Builder constructs, is exactly right.

Would a building become more like flowing music if residents moved by fire poles and vibrating suspension cables from room to room? Would it help if the building were constructed on a base that was spinning wildly around the Milky Way?

Why do Architects have big egos, and midwives not? Are buildings more important than babies?