Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows - the south and east oriels - are of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising. Bayard Taylor archarchitecturebeautiful share on social
People are moving into modes of participation and self-generation, which apply to everything from museums and television to architecture. Jake Barton applyarchitecturegeneration Change image and share on social
Architects have created this fake separation between creation and execution. You can see it in architecture schools, where the students look down on going to contracts classes. Joshua Prince-Ramus architectarchitectureclass Change image and share on social
The idea was that you could grow a system like the Internet one network at a time and then interconnect them. In some sense, the most important thing was the invention of the architecture protocols that enabled the Internet. Vint Cerf architectureenablegrow share on social
Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite. Charles Jencks architectureblockcoup share on social
Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken. Martin Filler architecturecursusdevise Change image and share on social
Considering my specialization in architecture, I'm not surprised that the first graphic novel to thoroughly engage, not to say captivate, me is Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor's 'Batman: Death by Design.' Martin Filler architecturebatmancaptivate Change image and share on social
The real architecture happens within the works themselves, and that was done by the composer. That's where the real skill is. In putting together a program, you're more a curator, but that's important as well. And then the interpreting of it is where our big job is. Joshua Bell architecturebigcomposer share on social
London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design. Renzo Piano architecturecivilisedesign Change image and share on social
All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas! T. E. Lawrence affectalaarchitecture share on social