The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.

Quote by J Russell Lynes

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Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

Any real New Yorker is a you-name-it-we-have-it-snob whose heart brims with sympathy for the millions...

Any real New Yorker is a you-name-it-we-have-it-snob whose heart brims with sympathy for the millions...

If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it...

If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it...

Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.

Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.

Cynicism: The intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.

Cynicism: The intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.

There are times when you just get down, you feel like nobody likes you. We're...

There are times when you just get down, you feel like nobody likes you. We're...

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely...

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely...

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination...

[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination...

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture....

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture....

Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry,...

Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry,...

The architectural profession gave the public 50 years of modern architecture and the public's response...

The architectural profession gave the public 50 years of modern architecture and the public's response...

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to...

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to...

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be...

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be...

A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that...

A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that...

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.

Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like...

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like...

If teaching has any purpose, it is to implant true insight and responsibility. Education must...

If teaching has any purpose, it is to implant true insight and responsibility. Education must...

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more...

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more...