Architecture is … the picture frame, not the picture.
~ William Wurster
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Wurster and his firm designed our 1957 house, right here in Dallas…it’s a great frame 🙂
I knew that he was a consulting architect on the Temple Emanu-El but I didn’t know that Wurster had a project here in Dallas – care to email me an address??
Ahahah right!! It was the first thing that my professors teached me at university, here in Italy!!
Architecture is… Too complex to sum up in one simple sentence.
Interesting.
Oh, dear, don’t you know that when an architect or designer uses the word, “interesting,” it doesn’t express praise or, more likely, fright. Apathy for the untrained.
unnecessary
Sorry. I’m just an office manager.
you are not just an office manager – you are my friend and I think you’re pretty awesome.
Aww. Thanks Bob.
BTW my eyes are leaking.
I love it
My professor asked our class this one time in studio. The best response I heard; “Architecture is the meaningful enclosure of space…”
Could it be…? Prof. Akkurt at Iowa State in the 80’s? We spent the semester exploring his question. My response was similar, “a meaningful expression of space”, since expression also relates to the outside while enclosure is interior specific.