“The 20th century hasn’t built for men; it has built for money.” – – Le Corbusier [1887-1965] Swiss-French architect
portrait of Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, better known as Le Corbusier, on the front of a Swiss 10 franc bank note
“Had I been taller, all my buildings probably would have been proportionally taller.” – – Frank Lloyd Wright [1867-1959] American architect
Frank Lloyd Wright
“Raise high the roof beams carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.” – – Irving Sappho in “Raise High the Roof Beam Carpenters”, by J. D. Salinger [1919-2010] American writer
Jerome David Salinger with his daughter Margaret
“Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.” – – the narrator in Slaughter House Five by Kurt Vonnegut jr. [1922-2007] American author
Kurt Vonnegut jr. in the 1940s
“I could count twenty such
On twice your fingers, and not leave this town,
Who strive–you don’t know how the others strive
To paint a little thing like that you smeared
Carelessly passing with your robes afloat,–
Yet do much less, so much less, Someone says,
(I know his name, no matter)–so much less!
Well, less is more, Lucrezia: I am judged.”
from the poem Andrea del Sarto by Robert Browning [1812-1889] English poet
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Less is more.” – – Mies van der Rohe [1886-1969] German American architect
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
“Less is a bore.” – – Robert Venturi [b.1925] American architect
Robert Charles Venturi, Jr.
“More is more.” – – Tony Duquette [1914-1999] American artist
Tony Duquette at his Malibu, CA ranch
“More is a bore.”- – Bjarke Ingels [b. 1974] Danish architect
Bjarke Ingels in 2012
“Less and less is more and more.” – – Tom Wolfe [b. 1931] American writer (I think this is attributable to Wolfe though I can’t locate the source. If he didn’t write or utter it he ought to have.)
Thomas Kennerly Wolfe, Jr.
“Form follows function.” – – Louis Sullivan [1856-1924] American architect
Louis Henry Sullivan
“Form follows fiasco.’ – – Peter Blake [1920-2006] German American architect, critic, editor, author
Peter Blake
“Form follows fashion.” – – anonymous postmodern architects
“To make the simple complex with the useless is both futile and nihilistic.” – – Carlo Aymonino [1926-2010] Italian architect
Carlo Aymonino
Frank Owen (Goldberg) Gehry, FAIA, CC
Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM
John Ruskin in 1863
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