Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architects task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise. – Adolf Loos
The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present. – Adolf Loos
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architects task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise. – Adolf Loos
The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present. – Adolf Loos
The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not. – Adolf Loos
…the thoughtful excitement of lonely rambles, of gardening, and of other like occupations, where the mind has leisure to must during the healthful activity of the body, with the fresh and wakeful breezes blowing round it… – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers