“What Gaudi had attained by twisting the order to his peculiar missionary and structural purposes, Loos could only assert by isolation and giganticism: the supremacy of value pitted against the city of brute fact. The Doric order appeared to have been the ultimate historical form, the great human building achievement, unfettered by sculptural contingency or the base need for shelter. All of them – Gaudi, Sullivan and Loos, and Asplund – saw the Doric order as ultimate, though perhaps only for Loos did that imply the last ever, the last possible.” Doric Book:The Dancing Column: On Order in Architecture Source: The Dancing Column: On Order in Architecture
“One of the general considerations about new buildings is that people tend to say that anything new is a monstrosity. And then after a while they either accept them or they go on thinking that they are monstrosities. Reactions vary. This depends to some extent on the quality of the building.” PeopleThinkingQualityAcceptingBuildingGoes OnDependsReactionsConsiderationVaryMonstrosity Author:Joseph Rykwert
“Mixed use is what cities are all about. If you don't have mixed use you don't have cities.” IfsUseCities Author:Joseph Rykwert
“If you look at the entrance halls of the skyscrapers of the 1920s and 1930s, they are very welcoming. They are public spaces with enormous amounts of display and marble and so on. They were havens off the street.” IfsLooksSpaceStreetsHavensAmountEnormousWelcomeHallsDisplayMarbleEntrances1930sSkyscraper Author:Joseph Rykwert
“The price of property in city centres is making it impossible, particularly in the big cities, for any kind of social mix to take place. It's castrating the whole notion of city life” KindWholeBigsSocialCitiesImpossiblePropertyNotionArchitectureCentreCity LifeBig Cities Author:Joseph Rykwert
