Jannah_cooper's List: Place and Space

• A bridge, a field, the crest of a 'ill are not just picturesque landmarks. They  delineate the edges of savagely contested terrain
• The beauty that we see in the vernacular landscape is the image of our common  humanity: hard work, stubborn hope and 'utual forbearance striving to be love.
• Though a building has physical boundaries, its meaning and value depend on its  relationship to the city outsid' them. Not just the physical space around the  building, but also the economic, social, political and historical forces  converging on its site. The building provides a frame for examining those  forces.
• A century ago, Louis Sullivan wrote that ''once you learn to look at  architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done,  but as a social manifestation, the critical eye becomes clairvoyant.''

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