Understanding Architecture A Book by Robert McCarter & Juhani Pallasmaa www.phaidon.com We have turned our faces towards the futureFragments of timeA timeless spaceTheatre Epidaurus, Greece, 330 BCThe secret life of sculpture+17 More Fragments of time architecturehistorycities
Economy of material and labor Whatever the comparative merits of [various bed framing methods], what is clear from Aristotle's Mechanica is that economy of material, and labor, was as much an issue in ancient times as it is now. Henry Petroski, The Evolution of Useful Things The requirements of economyThe art of not constructing simplicity