Reyner Banham quotes

Reyner Banham quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“When your house contains such a complex of piping, flues, ducts, wires, lights, inlets, outlets, ovens, sinks, refuse disposers, hi-fi re-verberators, antennae, conduits, freezers, heaters -when it contains so many services that the hardware could stand up by itself without any assistance from the house, why have a house hold it up. When the cost of all this tackle is half of the total outlay (or more, as it often is) what is the house doing except concealing your mechanical pudenda from the stares of folks on the sidewalk?”
-- Reyner Banham

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“In a landscape where nothing officially exists (otherwise it would not be â€˜desertâ€™), absolutely anything becomes thinkable, and may consequently happenâ€¦”
-- Reyner Banham

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