Lewis Mumford Quotes About Architecture

Quotes about: Architecture

• Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one.

  Lewis Mumford

  Architecture, Prophecy, Tombs

  Lewis Mumford (1975). “Findings and keepings: analects for an autobiography”, Not Avail

• While a great many other ideas and measures are of prime importance for the good life of the community, that which concerns its architectural expression is the notion of the community as limited in numbers, and in area... To express these relations clearly, to embody them in buildings and roads and gardens in which each individual structure will be subordinated to the whole - this is the end of community planning.

  Lewis Mumford

  Good Life, Garden, Expression

• The Fujiyama of Architecture?at once a lofty mountain and a national shrine.

  Lewis Mumford

  Mountain, Shrines, Architecture

  1953 Of Frank Lloyd Wright.'A Phoenix Too Infrequent', in the NewYorker, 28 Nov.

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