Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. The size of the project means little in art, beyond the money matter. It is the quality of the character that really counts.
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Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.
Wren’s achievement is unique, it is wholly and completely of his soil and time. It is the epitome of an age which could confidently attempt to replace the lost ideals of the past by the newly discovered criteria of its present; an age which could glory in the belief that the advance from the ‘superstitions’ […]
Always design a thing by considering it in its larger context – a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.
Too many stairs and back doors make thieves and whores.
Philip Johnson made a famous statement about one of those magazines that photographs the extravagant homes, sumptuous apartments and unbelievable furniture of the wealthy. He said the magazines were pornography for architects. When you think about it, almost everything in American life is pornography for some special group, whether its car buffs or house buffs […]
Architecture is frozen music.
Architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music.
The architecture of our future is not only unfinished; the scaffolding has hardly gone up.
