Amsterdam Quote by Kenneth Frampton

“The housing stock along the broad Edinburgh Road was a linear map of a century of social housing, from scrubby squares of muddy grass…

— Denise Mina

There is a change in the view about how condominiums are designed. People used to make prototype apartments and reproduce these boxes hundreds and…

— Santiago Calatrava

“In the 1980s, worried professionals began to come together to compare notes and create visions of new ways of living that would offer a…

— Bella DePaulo

“The house looked on to other tenement-like structures, experiments in architectural insignificance, that intruded upon a central concentration of buildings, commanding and antiquated, laid…

— Anthony Powell

“The avenue was designed by Reichsminister Albert Speer and completed in 1957. It is one hundred and twenty-three meters wide and five-point-six kilometers in…

— Robert Harris

This is what we've been waiting for: finally, an unprecedented critical analysis of the history of Dutch design. Mienke Simon Thomas's Dutch Design is…

— Wim Crouwel

In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower…

— John Major

At times we would have these whole cities that would take up rooms and stretch out all over the house. But they were also…

— Ellen Gallagher

The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street and a city are all the same process.

— Gianfranco Ferre

“Polly parked the van and peered through the windshield at the house. Well, good thing it was isolated here on the cliff because she…

— Nina Lane

If our designs for private houses are to be correct, we must at the outset take note of the countries and climates in which…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as…

— Edward Burnett Tylor