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“There have always seemed to the writer sound reasons for using the module system in architectural design.”

Ernest Flagg

Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922), Ch. II

“Where the processes and apparatus is used, over and over again, great economy should result”

Ernest Flagg

Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)
Context: The system of building, described in this work, is intended for repetition. It would hardly pay to adopt it in its entirety for a single house if the matter were to end there. Where the processes and apparatus is used, over and over again, great economy should result; but for a single building, the trouble and expense of introducing so many new or unusual features and methods, might well offset the benefits which should accrue under more favorable conditions. Standardization both of parts and workmanship plays a great part in the economies obtained and standardization implies quantity.<!--Ch. I

“Reason requires all things to have a use and be appropriate and fitted to the purpose for which they are used.”

Ernest Flagg

Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)

“Disadvantages… can be entirely removed by… the ridge-dormer. By its use space in the roof, otherwise of little value, becomes the most desirable.”

Ernest Flagg

Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)
Context: Disadvantages... can be entirely removed by... the ridge-dormer. By its use space in the roof, otherwise of little value, becomes the most desirable. Instead of being gloomy, stuffy and hot, the dormers render it perfectly ventilated, light at all times, and cool in hot weather. In frame buildings, it is not so easy, because there must be tie beams... to withstand the thrust of the roof.... Where low stone walls are used... the strength of the walls is sufficient to withstand the thrust...<!--Ch. III

“When, in architecture, one uses a fixed unit and combinations of it, to produce harmony, the effect should be most striking and apparent… as it is in music by the measured beat and in poetry by the cadence and rhythm.”

Ernest Flagg

Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)
Context: When, in architecture, one uses a fixed unit and combinations of it, to produce harmony, the effect should be most striking and apparent... as it is in music by the measured beat and in poetry by the cadence and rhythm.<!--Ch. II

Music

“In the human form, as nature tries to make it, every feature is useful and every feature is beautiful. Each member is perfectly adapted to the function it has to perform; nothing is superfluous”

Ernest Flagg

Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)
Context: In the human form, as nature tries to make it, every feature is useful and every feature is beautiful. Each member is perfectly adapted to the function it has to perform; nothing is superfluous, yet the whole and every part is supremely decorative.<!-- Introduction

Beauty , Nature

“As in poetry and music, even the unskilled ear may be offended by a mistake in measure, without discerning the cause, may not also a mistake in the harmony of dimensions unconsciously offend us in design?”

Ernest Flagg

Source: Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922), Ch. II

Music

“4th. Savings in labor: (a) By the lowness of the walls… (b) in the use of unskilled labor in building walls, by backing the face stones with concrete, and placing the face stones in the forms dry without the use of mortar, except for pointing… (c) in the simplification of woodwork, especially in the hanging of windows and doors, and in the setting of trim… (d) in the application of hardware, chiefly on account of the kind of hinges used… (e) in the standardization of parts and the use of similar members… (f) by cutting about one-half the labor in the installation of plumbing drainage… and (g) by the greater use of machine and shop work, which the exposed structural members permit of.”

Ernest Flagg

Introduction
Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)

Parting

“2d. Saving space: (a) By the utilization of the large volume of space contained in the slopes of roofs… (b) by the reduction of floor thickness… (c) by the utilization of space (as on shipboard) for lockers, cupboards, closets, etc… (d) by the use of thin partitions… and (e) by elimination of corridors… so that the least possible area may be required for communication.”

Ernest Flagg

Introduction
Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)

Communication

“To the Greek harmony was of supreme importance, and if the triglyphs represented the harmonic scale… their meaning and use is abundantly explained. …The universal admiration which Greek proportions have always excited proves that the method of obtaining them was correct.”

Ernest Flagg

Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)

Universe

“Style… the very hall-mark of great art… there is little use in trying to define style.”

Ernest Flagg

Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)

Art

“The most economical way of obtaining good results is to apply the great, fundamental principles of art; and depend on them for beauty, rather than upon the use of either applied ornament or more expensive materials… much better results are likely to accrue from truth than falsehood, and from architectural [rather] than archaeological methods.”

Ernest Flagg

Introduction
Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)

Truth , Beauty , Art , Way

“The Greeks were men of sense; if they used the system they did so for a purpose, as artists rather than mathematicians and imperceptible irregularities could not affect that purpose.”

Ernest Flagg

Source: Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922), Ch. II

Men , Sense

“For more than two thousand years architectural design by the use of a modulus, except in the case of the classic orders, had been a lost art.”

Ernest Flagg

Source: Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922), Ch. II

Art

“Ridge-dormers have many other advantages. In winter, when closed… it is nature's own method of lighting. Ridge-dormers greatly reduce the height of the building; because bringing into use space heretofore wasted, the eaves may be correspondingly lowered.”

Ernest Flagg

Source: Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922), Ch. III

Nature , Light , Winter