We have lost our sense of intimate life A Quote by Luis Barragán Take the use of enormous plate windows...they deprive our buildings of intimacy, the effect of shadow and atmosphere. Architects all over the world have been mistaken in the proportions which they have assigned to large plate windows or spaces opening to the outside. We have lost our sense of intimate life, and have become forced to live public lives, essentially away from home. 239. Small Panes privacywindows
A city cannot be a work of art There is a basic esthetic limitation on what can be done with cities: A city cannot be a work of art. Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities The order of life artcities