Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis: Quotes about forgetting

Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis was Greek architect. Explore interesting quotes on forgetting.

Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis: 52 quotes3 likes

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

Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis

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

“We should never forget that values of the past are first overlooked when a change is necessary, but later they are understood and re-established.”

Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis

Source: Building Entopia - 1975, Chapter 7, The room , p. 98

“The big mistake most commonly made today is that when we speak of transportation we think only of persons and goods. We forget the existence of water, clean or otherwise, moving in pipes, of gas, oil, electricity, messages, the telephones etc. The result is that we waste a lot of space and Networks.”

Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis

Source: Building Entopia - 1975, Chapter 21, The system of Networks, p. 286

“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