top of page
.png){kind=small}
"The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts."
Standard
Customized
More
"Laws, like houses, lean on one another."
Author Name
Personal Development
"We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys."
Author Name
Personal Development
"We are making the fundamental changes. It was like the decent housing target. We said by 2010, we'd have taken a million houses and refurbished them into decent housing."
Author Name
Personal Development
"We all came from houses with doors, doors that were supposed to be closed when there were things going on that we weren't supposed to see, and when our pants were down."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If you look across the valley, you can see exactly what I mean: about four beautiful houses, and you think something is happening in each of them. It's like a mural."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I got very cross with the term, kitchen sink. It just meant that you invaded different kinds of houses, where it was very difficult to avoid kitchen sink."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him."
Knowledge
"A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say."
Saying
"In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision."
Love
"The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts."
Houses
"What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts."
Inspirational
"The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines."
Living
"It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear."
Voice
"Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents."
Urbanism
"The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins."
Urbanism
"Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst."
Public
bottom of page