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“A master in art need not go into the highways and byways for affects; he knows the straight course and follows it.”

Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)

“The qualities called personal… and the ability to impart them, in greater or less degree, is the gage of genius in art.”

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Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)

“New York ought to have such an avenue like the Champs Elysées of Paris, Unter den Linden of Berlin, or the Ring Strasse of Vienna, but more ample than any of them; for here, of all places, owing to the shape of the island, there is the most need of such a thing.”

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"The Plan of New York, and How to Improve It," Scribner's Magazine (August, 1904) 36

“It is clearly apparent that in building the best results should accrue in proportion as every element in the structure is fitted both to the function it has to perform and the materials of which it is made. It follows from this that disguise and complication are hindrances, both to good construction and good design, and as complication and disguise are expensive and wasteful, that the interests of good art and true economy run on parallel lines.”

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

“Dormers may easily lose, in winter, the credit they gained in summer. …If, however, they are properly made and securely closed in cold weather, this will not happen.”

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Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)

“The Parthenon stands as a reproach to the rest of the world. May not this be because the rest of the world has forgotten, or never knew, the principles which made the Parthenon possible and of which harmony of proportion… was one?”

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

“Unless he is prepared to try his new theories and processes on himself, as has been done here, there is little likelihood that he will ever see them applied, for he will find that, of all people, builders are most set in their ways and hardest to move from their accustomed ruts.”

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“The chief difficulty in designing small houses is to avoid an excessive appearance of height. …the ridge-dormer or its equivalent, the ridge skylight, would open a whole new field of opportunity…”

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Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)

“Instead of the dormers, skylights… are easier to make and operate, need no double sash, cost less, and some may prefer their appearance.”

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Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)

“Unity…. Unity of purpose is shown by continuity, or the proper relationship of the parts with each other, and with the whole as one sees it best expressed in the human form. Unity of mass is obtained by giving predominance of mass to some one feature…”

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Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)

“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?”

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

“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.”

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Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)

“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.”

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Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)

“In the human figure as it approaches perfection… is contained the sure guide for the determination of all true principles of design. …it was because the ancient Greeks… realized this truth that they excelled all others in art.”

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Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)

“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.”

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Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)

“The object of this work is to improve the design and construction of small houses while reducing their cost.”

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“How few people, even among the supposedly well educated, can give an intelligent explanation of the qualities of a design! …the essential ones …are necessary in order that the design may be worthy to be classed at all as a work of art. Among the essential qualities are reason, unity, harmony, clarity, and variety. Among the desirable qualities are imagination, interest, refinement, simplicity, dignity, and style.”

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Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)

“Many women do not like to sleep on the ground floor, being afraid to leave their windows open at night. With ridge-dormers standing open, the lower windows may be kept closed and locked, while the room will be perfectly ventilated without them.”

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Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)

“It is hard to change long-established building habits; such habits sometimes endure for ages in certain localities with little or no change. It is, however, easy for new communities to acquire bad building habits.”

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“Certain combinations of dimensions produce harmonious results, but since the time of the ancient Greeks no system of design, consistently base on that knowledge, has been formulated.”

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

“When the necessity for shelter is great and the means for obtaining it scant, flimsy and makeshift methods of building find ready acceptance; and once introduced are hard to eradicate. Such habits, formed here in early times, still influence construction; as abundantly proved by our inordinate fire loss…”

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

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Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)

“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.”

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“Refinement. While the possession of this quality is due, in the first instance, to education, it is also largely a matter of temperament.”

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Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)

“A Greek architect of the great epoch would no more have thought of omitting the mark of the harmonic scale of proportion, on which the design was based, than would the composer of music think of omitting the harmonic scale of his composition.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“From time to time a square has been opened here, a park there, a street cut through in one place or widened in another, but these improvements have been entirely local in their effect, and have failed to change the general appearance of the city. Even the greatest of all these changes, the laying out of Central Park, was unfortunate, to say the least, for it serves to aggravate one of the worst features of the original plan, viz., the failure to provide a central artery of communication worthy of the coming city.”

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"The Plan of New York, and How to Improve It," Scribner's Magazine (August, 1904) 36

“We here have… an architectural discovery which may prove of inestimable value to future art. …Like fire, it is a good servant but a bad master. The danger is that it may lead to a cramped and mechanical design. One may easily become a slave to the module, and do things because of it which his taste or reason would not otherwise commend. …How can the danger be avoided and the benefits secured?”

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Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)

“When the true principles of design are forgotten; when, in art, the bizarre and novel is the aim rather than the beautiful; when complication and mystery take the place of what should be as simple and clear as the atmosphere, design runs amuck, and becomes so helplessly involved in difficulties that such manifestations as cubism, impressionism, futurism, and art nouveau shoe their ugly heads and pose as art.”

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