Designed by ;xNLx;Dr. Nancy Kwallek- Director of the Interior Design Program, Gene Edward Mikeska Endowed Chair for Interior Design The University of Texas at Austin;xNLx;;xNLx;Elise King- MID Candidate 2012, MA Architectural History The University of Texas at Austin;xNLx;;xNLx;;xNLx;Intro image courtesy of Spigoo via Flickr.
"It is, as it were, the visible image of the universe; in the perfection of its proportions, as when you regard the unmeasured dome of heaven, the idea of magnitude is swallowed up and lost." -Percy Bysshe Shelley
"That most beautiful of chapels, the chapel of the king, most decently situated within the walls of the king's house, enjoys a complete and indissoluble structure of the most solid stone. The most excellent colors of the pictures, the precious gilding of the images, the beautiful transparence of the ruddy windows on all sides, the most beautiful cloths of the altars, the wondrous merits of the sanctuary, the figures of the reliquaries externally adorned with dazzling gems, bestow such a hyperbolic beauty on that house of prayer, that, in going into it below, one understandably believes oneself, as if rapt to heaven, to enter one of the best chambers of Paradise." -Jean de Jandun, "Tractatus de laudibus Parisius" (1323)
"The earth challanges the sky... with a dome that is even higher than paradise." -anonymous
"I have always striven to fix beauty in wood, stone, glass or pottery, in oil or watercolor by using whatever seemed fittest for the expression of beauty, that has been my creed." -Louis Comfort Tiffany (1916)
"(The artist) must possess technical invention in order to create for himself suitable processes of expression - and above all he requires the aid of invention in order to transform the elements with which nature supplies him - and compose new images from them."-Charles Rennie Mackintosh
"Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable." -Adolf Loos
“It is not the quantity, but the quality of light, that makes things visible" -Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo
"Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light." -Le Corbusier
"Perhaps the portion of the World's Exposition which America is far ahead of all in competition is the Palace of Electricity; here she is seen in her natural splendour, eclipsing by her dazzling light ever other nation."-Naylor
“Solitude. Only in intimate communion with solitude may man find himself. Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who fear or shun it.” -Luis Barragan
