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It is the Late
city that first defies the land, contradicts Nature in the
lines of its silhouette, denies all Nature. It wants to be
something different from and higher than Nature. These
high-pitched gables, these Baroque cupolas, spires, and
pinnacles, neither are, nor desire to be, related with
anything in Nature. And then begins the gigantic
megalopolis, the city-as-world, which suffers nothing beside
itself and sets about annihilating the country picture.
-- Oswald Spengler
1880-1936, German Philosopher
Form ever
follows function.
-- Louis Henry Sullivan
True, there
are architects so called in this country, and I have heard
of one at least possessed with the idea of making
architectural ornaments have a core of truth, a necessity,
and hence a beauty, as if it were a revelation to him. All
very well perhaps from his point of view, but only a little
better than the common dilettantism.
-- Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist,
Poet, Naturalist
Heredity is a
strong factor, even in architecture. Necessity first
mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her
own, and they look just like grandma.
-- E
lwyn) B(rooks) White
(1899-1985, American Author, Editor
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Le Corbusier
was the sort of relentlessly rational intellectual that only
France loves wholeheartedly, the logician who flies higher
and higher in ever-decreasing circles until, with one last,
utterly inevitable induction, he disappears up his own
fundamental aperture and emerges in the fourth dimension as
a needle-thin umber bird.
-- Thomas Wolfe
1931-, American Author,
Journalist
The physician
can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his
clients to plant vines.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright
1869-1959, American Architect
A doctor can
bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his
clients to plant vines.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright
1869-1959, American Architect
All fine
architectural values are human vales, else not valuable.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright
1869-1959, American Architect
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