Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis: System

Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis was Greek architect. Explore interesting quotes on system.
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“Dimensions are not connected with the efficiency of the system; they simply make it more difficult.”

Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis

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.”

Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis

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

Question

“When we place all these extraordinary achievements together, however we can see where we have failed: by bringing together all the elements of progress into a meaningless and inhuman system of life.”

Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis

Source: Building Entopia - 1975, Chapter 3, The three futures, p. 30

Life

“I begin with the clarification that I consider Society as a total system of relationships between people which are either visible or invisible and which form networks.”

Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis

Source: Building Entopia - 1975, Chapter 19, The system of Society, p. 264

People