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The Planning Exchange - Independent, not-for-profit company committed to the spread and exchange of information in aspects of urban and rural regeneration and development.
Aecportico - UK directory of information on the architecture, engineering and construction industries, from the Royal Institute of British Architects. Construction news, categorised directory of links, diary.
Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment - Promoting high quality design and architecture to raise the standard of the built environment.
Archinet - Internet service for architects and the construction industry. News, building reviews, competitions, jobs.
Ribanet - The huge site of the Royal Institute of British Architects. News, exhibitions, online shopping, directory of architects, architectural drawings collection, large list of architecture links.
Architecture Foundation - Program of exhibitions and events, promoting contemporary architecture and issues of the urban environment. Based in London.
Gabion: Retained Writing on Architecture - An illustrated archive of critical writing on architecture, design and related topics by Hugh Pearman.
Archaos - The national student architectural society founded in 1999 by the student reps who sit on the RIBA council. Information on architectural education, competitions and students in practice.
Prince's Foundation - An architecture school and trust founded by the Prince of Wales to promote a return of human values to architecture. Outline of aims and projects. Includes 'Regeneration Through Heritage' that promotes re-usage of heritage industrial buildings.
Art and Architecture - A society to promote collaboration between artists and architects in the creation of a more stimulating environment. News, members network, lectures, journal, message board.
The Glass-House - United Kingdom organization which seeks to involve tenants and low-income communities in building design. Site includes design gallery, information on courses.
The Pyramus and Thisbe Club - Information and contact for architects, civil engineers and other related professions specialising in partywalls architecture in the UK.
Off Design - Portal for members of the UK architecture, engineering and construction industries, providing a business directory, tools such as a fee calculator, and news and events.
Building - UK building industry and construction sector magazine covering the whole spectrum of design, building and construction.
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(Albert Camus, The Fall) Architecture Love is friendship set on fire. - Jeremy Taylor "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) The course of true love never did run smooth. -- William Shakespeare If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Architecture The covers of this book are too far apart. -- Ambrose Bierce My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. -- INDIRA Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Architecture I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. -- Vincent Van Gogh If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer. -- Anon. A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage. -- Marvin Kitman Vote early and vote often. - Al Capone Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. -- Hermione Gingold Architecture When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five isn't bad. -- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based Architecture Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. -- Arthur C. Clarke "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue. -- Anonymous "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. -- G. K. Chesterton Architecture Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them. -- Sydney Smith Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. -- George Clemenceau The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. -- Robert M. Pirsig Architecture "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. -- William Penn "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been. -- Wayne Gretzky All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce Architecture A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. -- James Lowell Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. -- Aldous Huxley It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. - George Bernard Shaw Architecture Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. -- Tom Stoppard When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover, All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth. -- Benjamin Disraeli Architecture We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. -- John Stuart Mill Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house. -- Jean Ke Only the little people pay taxes. -- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Architecture "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. -- Abraham Lincoln Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children. -- Libby Gelman-Waxner Architecture Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon. -- Joseph Heller, God Knows Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. -- Albert Einstein Architecture "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. -- Rita Rudner ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room! -- Dr. Strangelove Architecture It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off! -- Douglas Jerold, 1858 I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste. -- David Bissonette You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. -- Indira Gandhi Architecture "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too. -- H. L. Mencken "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. -- Henry James Silence is argument carried out by other means. - ErnestoCheGuevara Architecture "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. -- Anatole France This is the fourth? -- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Architecture "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Ambition is not a vice of little people. -- Michel de Montaigne "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Architecture "The face is the soul of the body." 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