Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis: Doing

Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis was Greek architect. Explore interesting quotes on doing.
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“If we do not understand furniture we cannot understand the city”

Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis

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

Understanding

“If we have the most perfect neighborhoods without proper connections between them we do not have a city, but nomadic life in a jungle.”

Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis

Source: Building Entopia - 1975, Chapter 16, The need for a system, p. 240

Life , Perfection

“My conclusion is that today we are in chaos as far as the metropolis is concerned and do not do anything in the right direction.”

Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis

Source: Building Entopia - 1975, Chapter 12, Metropolis, p. 171

“We need to understand what we can do and how. Otherwise we will never do it.”

Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis

Preface, p. x
Building Entopia - 1975

Understanding

“we forget that the polis, no matter whether old or new, has its own dimensions and its own scale; and if we impose on it solutions corresponding to larger scales, we do it a lot of harm and we destroy all its values.”

Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis

Source: Building Entopia - 1975, Chapter 11, The polis, p. 154

Forgetting

“The fact that the super-markets and super shops have developed and serve wider areas of tens of thousands of people does not mean that we do not need smaller ones.”

Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis

Source: Building Entopia - 1975, Chapter 10, The neighborhood, p. 134

People