Spacing constitutes a fixed modulus

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.

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

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 …

The most perfectly constructed object in nature, and also the most beautiful object in nature, is the human form as it approaches perfection. This, then, is the criterion of construction as it is of design. The study of its beauties is the …

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 …

disguise and complication are hindrances