"Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed……" — Lewis Mumford

Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb… - Lewis Mumford

"Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one."

— Lewis Mumford

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99 Quotes by Lewis Mumford

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Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a…
Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not…
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
The chief enemy of peace is the spirit of unreason itself: an inability to conceive alternatives, an unwillingness to reconsider…
By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged…
Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.
War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions.
In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer...
I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, "This man was an…
When vitality runs high, death takes men by surprise. But if they close their eyes to this possibility, what they…
A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

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More Architecture Quotes

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I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one. — Luis Barragan
My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience. — Luis Barragan
Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money. — Ambrose Bierce
No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language. — Theodore Bikel
Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat… — Alvar Aalto
We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and… — Alvar Aalto
A picture is worth a thousand words. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split… — Alvar Aalto
Architecture is inhabited sculpture. — Constantin Brancusi
The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit… — Alvar Aalto
I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in… — Dan Brown
Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases.… — Dan Brown

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