“A city’s architecture is always a bit like a constructed, psychological version of its people.”
Jacques Herzog (1950) Swiss architect
elbphilharmonie.de https://www.elbphilharmonie.de/elbphilharmonie-projekt-herzogdemeuron.en.
places.designobserver.com http://places.designobserver.com/feature/an-interview-with-jacques-herzog/32118/.
“A city’s architecture is always a bit like a constructed, psychological version of its people.”
Jacques Herzog (1950) Swiss architect
elbphilharmonie.de https://www.elbphilharmonie.de/elbphilharmonie-projekt-herzogdemeuron.en.
“Psychology is a very unsatisfactory science.”
Kurt Koffka (1886–1941) German psychologist
Source: Principles of Gestalt Psychology, 1935, p. 22. ( Chapter 1 https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/koffka.htm, online at marxists.org) <br class="br">Context: Psychology is a very unsatisfactory science. Comparing the vast body of systematised and recognised facts in physics with those in psychology one will doubt the advisability of teaching the latter to anybody who does not intend to become a professional psychologist, one might even doubt the advisability of training professional psychologists. But when one considers the potential contribution which psychology can make to our understanding of the universe, one's attitude may be changed. Science becomes easily divorced from life. The mathematician needs an escape from the thin air of his abstractions, beautiful as they are; the physicist wants to revel in sounds that are soft, mellow, and melodious, that seem to reveal mysteries which are hidden under the curtain of waves and atoms and mathematical equations; and even the biologist likes to enjoy the antics of his dog on Sundays unhampered by his weekday conviction that in reality they - are but chains of machine-like reflexes
Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate
Source: Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988), p. 371.
Fritz Wotruba (1907–1975) Austrian sculptor (23 April 1907, Vienna – 28 August 1975, Vienna)
circa 1969
Quote of Wotruba in: 'Sculpture of Rotterdam', ed. Jan van Adrichem / Jelle Bouwhuis / Mariëtte Dulle, Center for the Art, 010 Publishers, Rotterdam, 2002, p. 198.
Lewis M. Branscomb (1926) physicist and science policy advisor
command names, menu formats
L.M. Branscomb, J.C. Thomas (1984) "Ease of use: a system design challenge". in: IBM Systems Journal. Vol 23.3, Sept 1984. Pages 224-235
Wolfgang Köhler (1887–1967) German-American psychologist and phenomenologist
Source: Gestalt Psychology. 1930, p. 30
Robert Venturi book Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
9. The Inside and the Outside
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966)