"While a great many other ideas and measures……" — Lewis Mumford
"While a great many other ideas and measures are of prime importance for the good life of the community, that which concerns its architectural expression is the notion of the community as limited in numbers, and in area... To express these relations clearly, to embody them in buildings and roads and gardens in which each individual structure will be subordinated to the whole - this is the end of community planning."
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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…
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Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not…
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Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
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The chief enemy of peace is the spirit of unreason itself: an inability to conceive alternatives, an unwillingness to reconsider…
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By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged…
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Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.
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War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions.
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In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer...
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I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, "This man was an…
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When vitality runs high, death takes men by surprise. But if they close their eyes to this possibility, what they…
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A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.
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Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
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In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo.
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All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to…
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I hope that America as a whole, and especially its architects, will become more seriously involved in producing a new…
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Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from…
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A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.
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The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism.
— Kevin McCloud
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The fundamental failure of most graphic, product, architectural and even urban design is its insistence on serving the God of…
— Richard Saul Wurman
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...By allowing businesses to expense up to $75,000, it means somebody is more likely to buy a copying machine, or…
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The first principle of architectural beauty is that the essential lines of a construction be determined by a perfect appropriateness…
— Gustave Eiffel
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Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of…
— Stephen Bayley
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Free men and women... can think across time, viewing their own lives, inclusive of past, present, and future, as architectural…
— Robert Grudin
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Architecture and architectural freedom are above all a social issue that must be seen from inside a political structure, not…
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