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Some inspiring quotes from books read over this semester:

"Dan Flavin's flourescent light installation were particularly significant to me. In one, his understanding of the existing architecture and the way in which he placed his light to echo original architectural details both respected the earlier vernacular and animated space with a newer technology. In another, he transformed the renovation of the main stair into a shaft of multicolored light that seemed to emanate from an existing glass laylight." -- Richard Gluckman, Richard Gluckman Architect: Space Framed, p. 178.

"Like the minimalist artists, I try to create architecture in which the viewer is compelled to consider his place in real space and time. Less architectural detail and decor allows for more emphasis on the basic architectural components: structure, scale, proportion, material, and light. My approach is neither reductive nor neutral. The simple appearance allows the space to respond to what will go on in it, rather than to recede or dissolve." -- Richard Gluckman, Richard Gluckman Architect: Space Framed, p. 180.

"Beyond function and technology, enclosures explore metaphysical use of color and use conventional material in an innovative way in response to changed criteria and sensibilities. Beyond servicing as programmatic fit and technical performance, representation of a search for a popular and appropriate technique and expression as a modern day ornament. Beyong structural expreesionism, its formal and sculptural potential are exploited in relationship to the overall form. Beyond movement and circulation, representing preoccupations of a modernist age, an interest in organization, order and light. Beyond formal minimalism, a sense of freedom and an exploration of transparency, reflections, translucency in their effect on form and geometry as a need for enrichment and specificity." -- Helmut Jahn, Towards a New Synthesis

"If an office space is attractive and comfortable to work in, chances are that the employee will work harder. Provision of well designed working environments has proved to increase the level of worker's satisfaction and company loyalty and had a major effect on the quality of work done." -- Marina Tarussov, Future Office Requirements and the Quality of Downtown Public Areas, p. 93.

"Contemporary requirements for identity and uniqueness make the exterior design of almost every newly constructed office building more diverse. Modern building technology(new building materials and construction methods) also allows for greater variety of design features." -- same as above, p. 94.

"...Kahn paid consistent attention to letting the appropriate quantity of light into the building. More important, he also took into account the quality of light, thus shifting the emphasis of his work to a more theoretical plane...By 1960 he was speaking of the unpredictability of natural light as opposed to the static quality of artificial light. He described the magical role of daylight in transforming the room. Most significant in terms of his architecture, he began to consider the life-giving relationship between structure and light." -- Alexandra Tyng, Louis I Kahn's Philosophy in Architecture, p. 140.

"...Establishing the interdependency of light and structure, he explained that light defines the space while the space enlivens the light within it." -- same as above, p. 150.

"...it is the ability of the architect to propose a critical reinterpretation of the programme. Not a quantitative list of parts, but a vision of the world, in a choreographic sense or a situation in time. On this interpretation depends largely the possibility of transforming a 'passive' observer into an active participant, permitting the inhabitant to see him/herself as part of a significant totality. It is the capacity of architecture to not just refelct social order, but rather to imageine different possibilities, ...we can imagine an architecture in which true formal intention is not ultimately reduced to self-referential systems, resulting in the absurdity of an 'architecture for architects'. This 'new' alternative is an architecture in which participation by the inhabitants, with their collective memory, is once again perceived as an unavoidable(and welcome) component of meaning." -- Alberto Perez-Gomez, The Architecture of Steven Holl: In Search of a Poetry of Specifics, El Croquis 93, p. 24-26.

"The designers basic intention is to illustrate change and contrast: the shift from cinematic to architectural, the distinction between the movement on screen and the actions of the observer, and the comparison of urban with rural images. By combining image, sound and temperature, the installation penetrates a level of human emotion that ordinary media architecture fails to reach. Since the resources used in this project are sure to become less expensive and thus more available to large number of designers, the installation can also be seen as a vital element in the debate on future solution for built architecture." -- FRAME, p. 28