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simplicity

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak ~ Hans Hofmann * The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials ~ Lin Yutang * There is no greatness where there is no simplicity ~ Leo Tolstoy * Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance ~ Jon Franklin * The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply ~ Kahlil Gibran * It is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson * The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity nothing is better than simplicity ~ Walt Whitman * Simplicity is an exact medium between too little and too much ~ Sir Joshua Reynolds * Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distintinction ~ W. Somerset Maugham * Confusion and clutter are the failure of design, not the attributes of information ~ Edward R. Tufte * Simplicity is the

confucius

    When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal.  When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self- Confucius.  

needful and necessary the most secret art of geometry

How needful and necessary the most secret art of geometry is – without it the architect is no more than a stone despoi - Sebastiano Serlio Tanpa menggunakan kaidah geometri, maka seorang arsitek tidak lebih dari penyusun batu.

the structure corresponded to human scale

Even the earliest and most primitive architect developed the use of a regulating unit of measure such as a hand, or foot, or forearm in order to systemize and bring order to the task. At the same time the proportions of the structure corresponded to human scale -Le Corbusier

Being optimal or relating

Being optimal or relating to the best option for something; Being perfect, having no flaws or defect; Being something that exist only in the mind; conceptual, ideational; - Mary W. Shelley: “Life and death appeared to me ideal bonds”

Who says that structure should not be reinvented?

"Who says that structure should not be reinvented? . . . Who says that reinventing structure cannot be creative?"-Rem Koolhaas

intersection of logic and pain

The definition of architecture may lie at the intersection of logic and pain, rationality and anguish, concept and pleasure. – Bernard Tschumi