Sublime

exploring perspective, shape, color, materials, and light, and finding new ways to express what they saw.

solve architectural problems in a way that made an artistic statement at, he hoped, no cost to functional utility.

Never underestimate the power to make an impression—and to entertain—with normally neglected spaces.

an ode to the joy of architecture.

The architecture of nature, in other words, is self-similar.39 It is ripe with potential analogy.

“The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation,” Stravinsky wrote, connecting his sensibility in a further way to Frank’s, “and the true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note. He does not have

cities should be designed for people,

Alexander is inspired by how design occurs in the natural world. "Things that are good have a certain kind of structure," he told me. "You can't get that structure except dynamically. Period. In nature you've got continuous very-small-feedback-loop adaptation going on, which is why things get to be harmonious. That's why they have the qualities tha