Tagged: ARTIFICE BOOKS ON ARCHITECTURE

“The nature of space-matter, being soul-like, is such that the more whole it becomes, the more transparent, the more it seems to melt, the more it realizes itself, releases its own inner reality, the more transparent it becomes, the more transcendent.”  Alexander.

“When an object becomes observable, measurable, and quantifiable, it already has become civilized; the disciplinary organization of civilization extends its subjection to the object in the very way it makes it knowable.”  Lynch.

“The great book, always open and which we should make an effort to read is that of nature;  all other books are taken from it.  And in them there are the mistakes and misinterpretations of men.”  Gaudi.

Transparent Drawing, the book, is available from Amazon US, Amazon UK, Barnes and Noble, and the publisher, Black Dog Press.  It is also available from your favorite book seller.