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“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.”

Ideas Ends Whole Individual Community Numbers Building Expression Areas Concern Garden Importance Relation Structure Notion Architecture Planning Great Men Prime Good Life

Author:Lewis Mumford

“I viewed the station as a place, a terrain where I could put a new architecture in place. The station was, of course, an historic monument, but it does not deserve all the respect given it when it is said it is perfect, original and coherent expression of a past that we must revere. Orsay is basically a box.”

Doe Said Past Courses Given Perfect Expression Deserve Originals Boxes Architecture Stations Historic Monument Terrain

Author:Gae Aulenti

“Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.”

Dream Expression Function Instruments Architecture Convenience Utopia

Book:The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies

Source: The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies

“If there is no idea in the drawing, there is no idea in the constructed project. That's the expression of the idea. Architects make drawings that other people build. I make the drawings. If someone wants to build from those, that's up to them. I feel I'm making architecture. I believe the building comes into being as soon as it's drawn.”

People Ifs Want Feels Believe Ideas I Believe Building Expression Projects Architecture Drawing No Idea Architect

Author:Lebbeus Woods

“Our time has produced a need for contrast. This has been achieved not only in the external appearance of plastic expressions of coulor and matter, but also, and chiefly, in the tempo of life and in the techniques related to the daily, mechanical functions of life; namely standing, walking, driving, to lying and sitting - in short, every action which determines the content of architecture.”

“You cannot have good architecture merely by asking people's advice on occasion. All good architecture is the expression of national life and character; and it is produced by a prevalent and eager national taste, or desire for beauty.”

People Character Desire Advice Expression Taste Asking Architecture Occasions

Book:The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings

Source: The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings

“Type is one of the most eloquent means of expression in every epoch of style. Next to architecture, it gives the most characteristic portrait of a period and the most severe testimony of a nation's intellectual status.”

Giving Mean Next Nations Style Expression Type Periods Intellectual Architecture Characteristics Portraits Severe Testimony Eloquent Epoch

Author:Peter Behrens