Kenneth Frampton Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“From the Berlin tenement reform law of 1897 to H. P. Berlage's plan for Amsterdam South of 1917, designers and theorists in Germany and Holland moved toward the development of a perimeter residential block that would preserve the plastic continuity of the street while opening up the resultant courtyard for use as an enclosed semi-public space.”
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“Many of the received models of modern architecture and planning owe their ultimate origin to the building code and public health reform movements of the second half of the 19th century.”
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“Modern building has become so universally conditioned by optimized technology that the possibility of creating significant urban form has become extremely limited.”
-- Kenneth Frampton
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“The alleycats manipulate the blocks with gutter magic”
Source : Song: Nickel Plated Pockets, Album: Daylight, 2002
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“Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.”
Source : Alexander McCall Smith (2004). “The Sunday Philosophy Club”, p.153, Anchor
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“Thus would I double my life's fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.”
Source : Abraham Cowley, T. Sprat (1721). “Poems and other pieces published by the late Lord Bishop of Rochester; with some account of his life and writings”, p.719
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Source : "Directing the Film". Book by Ed Sherman, 1976.
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“There is no justice in following unjust laws.”
Source : Aaron Swartz (2016). “The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz”, p.27, The New Press
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