Category Archives: Quote

Let one building be like another

Let one building be like another. We won’t be published in Deutsche
Kunst und Dekoration and we won’t be made professors of applied art,
but we will have served ourselves, our times, our nation and mankind to
the best of our ability. (via) -Adolf Loos

Something about this quote really makes sense, sometimes good design means not being noticed.

Telegram from Helsinki

A Telegram from Aalto sent to MIT in 1958
‘Dear John just unable to produce enough architectural philosophy you may publish this telegramletter as a substitute stop Sibelius said if you publish three words of explaining music at least two words are wrong this may be true also in my architectural philosophy stop In ordinary discussion [...]