AZHAR
ARCHITECTURE
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Sustainable
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QUOTES “Fundamentally,
sustainable development is a notion of discipline. It means humanity must ensure
that meeting present needs does not compromise the ability of future generations
to meet their needs.“ The architect must
be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at
least ten years ahead don't call him an architect. The road of excess
leads to the palace of wisdom. "Cantabit vacuus
coram latrone viator" "We travel,
initially, to lose ourselves, and we travel, next to find ourselves." "There are also, in
every civilization, real places which are something like counter-sites. I shall
call them heterotopias.""....."The heterotopia is capable of juxtaposing in a
single real place several spaces, several sites, that are in themselves
incompatible."....."The ship is the heterotopia par excellence. In civilizations
without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure, and the
police take the place of pirates." Talent is cheaper
than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one
is a lot of hard work Action is the
foundational key to all success. “If you have built
castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.” “I always wanted to
be somebody. I should have been more specific.” “Know how to choose.
Most things in life depend on it. You need good taste and an upright judgement;
intelligence and application are not enough. There is no perfection without
discernment and selection.” “You must always
work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements,
handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle five. In that way the ones
you do handle, you handle with more ease and mastery, and you create a feeling
of strength in reserve.” "You’ve got to think
about the big things while you’re doing the small things, so that all the small
things go in the right direction.” A map of the world
that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at. He who loves
practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and
compass and never knows where he may cast. Intelligence without
ambition is a bird without wings. If you want to know
all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and
me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it.
“Future generation is the most important thing” “treat the Earth
well. It was not given to you by your parents. It was loaned to you by your
children” “sustainable
development is a dynamic process which enables all people to realise their
potential, and to improve their quality of life, in ways which simultaneously
protect and enhance the Earth's life support systems.” “Nothing is
unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it arises out
of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further developments.” “Problems cannot be
solved at the same level of awareness that created them. ” There are two
posible routes to affluence. Either produce much, or desire little. if everyone on the world enjoyed
the same level of natural resource consumption as a typical UK citizen, we would
need three planets to support us. This is clearly unsustainable. "Uncommon men require no common
trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds"
Enchantment, a useless thing, but
as inidispensible as bread. There are two reasons for good architecture in a
hospital, school or public space. One is its effect on outcomes: patients get
well faster, exam results improve, crime rates drop. The
other is its value in itself, like the value of music and art. A patient, a
child and a citizen are entitled to beauty dignity and richness in their
surroundings. Do not fear mistakes. There are
none. You know you’ve achieved
perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have
nothing more to take away. "It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institution and merely the lukewarm defense in those who gain by the new ones." Nicolo Machiavelli:
He who would travel happily must
travel lightly. I call architecture “petrified
music.” Really there is something in this; the tone of mind produced by
architecture approaches the effect of music. There's nothing remarkable about
it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument
plays itself. If civilization has risen from
the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age. The voyage of discovery lies not
in finding new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Our society lacks a feedback loop
for controlling technology: a way to gauge intended effects from actual effects
later on. lums may well be breeding-grounds
of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium. If everything seems under
control, you’re just not going fast enough. Until we accept the fact that
life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing. Begin the next. In 1994, 120 million people
migrated legally, or illegally, from one country to another. That's two per cent
of them world's population. Scenic games will be responsible
for the death of the soul. An ox is still an ox, even if you
drive it to Vienna. Do less, with less. Some people say complexity
is 'out of control'. But not knowing how to reach a destination is one thing —
having no destination at all is another, more wretched, thing.
Through play, the child is
liberated from action, from the constrants of the real, and moves in the
direction of abstract thought. The absurd is born of the
confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world. In 1970, Los Angeles became the
first place where the total acreage used for roads and parking exceeded the
amount of space given over to habitation. Nothing is unthinkable, nothing
impossible to the balanced person, provided it arises out of the needs of life
and is dedicated to life’s further developments. If you want to build a ship,
teach the men to yearn for the vast and endless sea. "Clothes make the
man. Naked people have little or no influence on society” "The brute covers
himself, the rich man and the fop adorn themselves, the elegant man dresses!" To make the world work for 100 percent of humanity in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation, without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone. - Buckminster Fuller We need a new environmental
consciousness on a global basis. To do this, we need to educate people.
- Mikhail Gorbachev We share the earth not only with our fellow
human beings, but with all the other creatures. - The
Dalai Lama Fundamentally, sustainable development is a notion of discipline. It means humanity must ensure that meeting present needs does not compromise the ability of future generations to meet their needs. - Gro Harlem Brundtland Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. - Albert Einstein We are living on this planet as if we had another one to go to. - Terri Swearingen Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant. - Aldous Huxley The best friend of earth of man is the tree. When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources on the earth. - Frank Lloyd Wright The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. - Galileo You can tell how high a society is by how much of its garbage is recycled. - Tahanie Little flower, but if I could understand, what you are, root and all in all, I should know what God and man is. - Tennyson We are seeing the birth of a new perspective of the world, where ecology and economics are two sides of the same coin. - Leif Johansson We still have to learn how to live peacefully, not only with our fellow men but also with nature and, above all, with those Higher Powers which have made nature and have made us. - E.F. Schumacher Only to the white man was nature a 'wilderness'. - Luther Standing Bear If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed. - Chinese Proverb The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years. - Jacques Cousteau Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food. - Hippocrates If we use fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly. This method is barbarous and wantonly wastefull. A far better way would be to avail ourselves of the sun's rays. - Nikola Tesla We must go through a natural revolution if we are to survive on earth. We need to change people's perceptions. If there's no environment, there's no human race. We are in a state of global denial. - Ted Turner The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Mahatma Gandhi There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. - Marshall McLuhan We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking. - Jacques-Yves Cousteau Only after the last tree has been cut down. Only after the last river has been poisoned. Only after the last fish has been caught. Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten. - Cree Indian Prophecy The continued poverty of the majority of the planet’s inhabitants and excessive consumption by the minority are the two major causes of environmental degradation. - UN Environment Program A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more insoluble problems for each succeeding generation can only be called violent. - E. F. Schumacher Everyone who considers themselves a realist will be forced to justify their behavior in light of their contribution toward the preservation of the environment. - Ernst von Weizacker For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. Only ten years ago the 'more with less' technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option of becoming enduringly successful. - Buckminster Fuller The future belongs to those who understand that doing more with less is compassionate, prosperous and enduring and thus more intelligent, even competitive. - Paul Hawken We have forgotten who we are, we have lost our sense of wonder and connectedness, we have degraded the earth and our fellow creatures, and we have nowhere else to go . . . - Earth Charter All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. - Martin Luther King, Jr. I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait 'til oil and coal run out before we tackle that. - Thomas Edison The boundless blue-sky, the ocean which gives us breath and protects us from the endless black and death, is but an infinitesimally thin film. - Vladimir Shatalov - Cosmonaut The only people in the suburbs who like what's happening are the developers, who are getting rich. - Myron Orfield Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment. - Rene Dubos Anything else you're interested in is not going to happen if you can't breathe the air and drink the water. Don't sit this one out. Do something. - Carl Sagan That each day I may walk unceasingly on the banks of my water, that my soul may repose on the branches of the trees which I planted. - Egyptian tomb inscription If you want to see an endangered species, get up and look in the mirror. - John Young, former Apollo astronaut Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them - Albert Einstein Human history becomes more a race between education and catastrophe. - H. G. Wells The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built. - Frank Lloyd Wright The time will come when men will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men. - Leonardo Da Vinci Our world has enough for each person's need, but not for his greed. - Mahatma Gandhi We all moan and groan about the loss of the quality of life through the destruction of our ecology, and yet each one of us, in our own little comfortable ways, contributes daily to that destruction. It's time now to awaken in each one of us the respect and attention our beloved mother deserves. - Ed Asner The world's deteriorating ecology poses as great a danger to mankind today as did the nuclear standoff between the superpowers at the height of the Cold War. - Mikhail Gorbachev Out of clutter ... find simplicity. From discord . . . find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. - Albert Einstein Whatever befalls the earth, befalls the people of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it. - Chief Seattle Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.- Stewart Udall The ecological crisis is doing what no other crisis in history has ever done -- challenging us to a realization of a new humanity. - Jean Houston We are each as much a part of the environment as a tree is. The ecosphere is an interconnected web (like the Internet).- Matt Howes Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge. - Thomas Edison A house is a machine for living in. A chair is a very difficult object. A
skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous. A great building must begin with the
unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in
the end must be unmeasurable. The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too. - Luther Standing Bear "Imagine life as a game in which you are
juggling five balls in the If we could shrink the
earth's population to a village of precisely When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the need for acceptance, understanding and education becomes glaringly apparent. The following is also something
to ponder... If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation ...you are ahead of 500 million people in the world. If you can attend a church
meeting without fear of harassment, If you have food in the
refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace ... you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy. |
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