“The [commercial] strip is marketed with the come-on of comfort (the Comfort Inn) and with the promise of a home on the road, a home where nobody knows your name and they're glad to see you as long as you… — Howard Mansfield Copy Share
“The [commercial] strip is marketed with the come-on of comfort (the Comfort Inn) and with the promise of a home on the road, a home where nobody knows your name and they're glad to see you as long as you can pay. The strip lives in the contradiction of the name Home Depot—domesticity on a gargantuan scale. Home—"a person's native… — Howard Mansfield Copy Share
We may talk of saving antique linens, species, or languages; but whatever we are intent on saving, when a restoration succeeds, we rescue ourselves. — Howard Mansfield Copy Share Image
Four hundred years is but a moment in 10,000 years. Time is curved, time is braided. Throw out your clocks. — Howard Mansfield Copy Share Image
“I was trying to discover examples of a living restoration, trying to go beyond discussions about correct historic colors, materials, and techniques. I looked… — Howard Mansfield Copy Share Image
“Good preservation is a life preserver thrown to us in a shipwreck. Good preservation keeps us in touch with the graces of this life.… — Howard Mansfield Copy Share Image
We have everywhere an absence of memory. Architects sometimes talk of building with context and continuity in mind, religious leaders call it tradition, social… — Howard Mansfield Copy Share Image
