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“A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.” ― Frank Lloyd Wright

”The point is that there is a deep human need for beauty, and if you ignore that need in architecture, your buildings will not last, since people will never feel at home in them. Indeed, the only beings at home in the decaying part of Reading I visited were the pigeons fouling the pavements.”   …

As with all prejudices, [colour’s] manifest form, its loathing, masks a fear: a fear of contamination and corruption by something that is unknown or appears unknowable…

“Italian cities have long been held up as ideals, not least by New Yorkers and Londoners enthralled by the ways their architecture gives beauty and meaning to everyday acts.” ― Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking Kommentarsregler: Vi ser gärna att du kommenterar, men för att hålla kommentarspåret öppet så kommer enbart kommentarer med riktigt för- och efternamn …

Marble, I perceive..

Något för Sveriges stadsplanerare att tänka på: A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive. Helmut Jahn

Architecture is an expression of values. Norman Foster, arkitekt                 Kommentarsregler:  För att hålla kommentarspåret öppet så kommer enbart kommentarer med riktigt  för- och efternamn visas. För att detta skall kunna garanteras vill vi att du skriver ett registrerat och sökbart telefonnummer i din text. Telefonnumret  publiceras inte.

“We were showing the Dylans these books of architectural features like arches,” he recalls. “In architecture, there are seven classic arches, and Bob said, ‘Just use them all.’ That was kind of his attitude.” Martin Newman, designer           Bob Dylan, rockikon, musiker, poet och nobelpristagare i litteratur 2016 Kommentarsregler: För att …

“I don’t know what London’s coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals.”