Architecture Quotes

“In architecture volume can be seen to be either a portion of space contained and defined by wall, floor and ceiling or roof planes or a quantity of space displaced by the mass of the building.”
― Francis D.K. Ching, Architecture: Form, Space, & Order

“All pictorial form begins with the point that sets itself in motion… The point moves … and the line comes into being—the first dimension. If the line shifts to form a plane, we obtain a two-dimensional element. In the movement from plane to spaces, the clash of planes gives rise to body (three-dimensional) … A summary of the kinetic energies which move the point into a line, the line into a plane, and the plane into a spatial dimension.”
― Francis D.K. Ching, Architecture: Form, Space, and Order

“Art is solving problems they cannot be formulated before they have been solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer.”
― Francis D.K. Ching, Architecture: Form, Space & Order

“Architectural order is created when the organization of parts makes visible their relationships to each other and the structure as a whole.”
― Francis D.K. Ching, Architecture: Form, Space & Order