Witold Rybczynski Quotes

#1. The most beautiful house in the world is the one that you build for yourself.

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#2. The truth is that a nineteenth-century warehouse exhibits greater craft in its construction than all but the most expensive modern buildings.

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#3. There are scores of books offering 'solutions' to sprawl. Their authors would do well to read this book.

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#4. You could walk out of the house, but you always returned home.

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#5. Architecture is an applied art, founded not on theories but on practice.

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#6. There may be fewer people in the American house of the nineties, but there are a lot more things.

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#7. Television watching should more properly be called television staring; it engages eye and ear simultaneously in a relentless and persistent way and leaves no room for daydreaming. This is what makes watching such an inferior form of leisure

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#8. For where else, if not in the home, can we let our imagination wander?

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