Tickler Thoughts 1

Some of the things I didnt say, but tickled my mind. A bit.

"Architects make architecture, historians make history, and what they both make is myth"
--- Jencks and Baird

"You dont know what the building really is, unless you have a belief behind the building. A belief in its identity in the way of life of man. Every architect's first act is that of either revitalizing a prevailing belief or finding a new belief which is just in the air somehow.."
--- Louis Kahn, 1965

"One could build beautifully designed houses, always provided the tenant was prepared to change his outlook"
--- Le Corbusier, 1969

"Architecture, when equated with language can only be read as a series of fragments which make up architectural reality."
--- Bernard Tschumi, 1990

"Since Myth is a type of speech, everything can be a myth provided it is conveyed by discourse. Myth is not defined by the object of its message, but by the way in which it utters its message."
--- R. Barthes, 1957

"Slogans and aphorisms are the simplest forms of myths and are easily assimilated, so they become the most direct mode of disseminating ideas about architecture. Whether they are 'true' is immaterial as long as they seem convincing; they need only to appear to be true to be utilized."
--- PA Johnson, 1993