Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis Quotes

Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis , often cited as C. A. Doxiadis, was a Greek architect and town planner. He was known as the lead architect of Islamabad, the new capital of Pakistan, and later as the father of ekistics. Wikipedia  

✵ 14. May 1914 – 28. June 1975
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Famous Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis Quotes

“If we do not understand furniture we cannot understand the city”

Source: Building Entopia - 1975, Chapter 6, The furniture, p. 70

“Dimensions are not connected with the efficiency of the system; they simply make it more difficult.”

Source: Building Entopia - 1975, Chapter 2, The great danger, p. 21

“When we speak of quality and desirability it is not the question of one unit, but of the whole system.”

Source: Building Entopia - 1975, Chapter 4, Definition of Entopia, p. 49

Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis Quotes about people

“The real city is the whole territory within which people move every day.”

Source: Building Entopia - 1975, Chapter 1, Ecumenopolis, p. 15

Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis Quotes about forgetting

“We should not forget that the value of seeing lies in the information capacity of vision.”

Source: Building Entopia - 1975, Chapter 9, The house group, p. 120

Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis Quotes

“The realistic view of the City of the Future accepts that it will be a global city.”

Source: Building Entopia - 1975, Chapter 1, Ecumenopolis, p. 2

“At present the machines are in control and no human values are respected.”

Source: Building Entopia - 1975, Chapter 9, The house group, p. 132

“The social aspect in city building is now completely overlooked.”

Source: Building Entopia - 1975, Chapter 5, The road to Entopia, p. 60

“Our Networks are not unified.”

Source: Building Entopia - 1975, Chapter 21, The system of Networks, p. 282

“From the balance of the past, we have been lea to the great injustice of the present.”

Source: Building Entopia - 1975, Chapter 5, The road to Entopia, p. 60

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