The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.
The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.
The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.
The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.
As much as we may want to withdraw into a world of pure problem solving, we have to acknowledge that the most successful architectures are the ones you can actually convince someone to implement.
Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.
Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights.
The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can’t remember us working it out.
French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.
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