Quotes from Bernard Rudofsky

Arcades are altruism turned architecture – private property given to an entire community.

Suburban man falling asleep near his lawn mower, pulling a section of his Sunday paper over his head, thus re-enacts the birth of architecture.

The shapes of houses, sometimes transmitted through a hundred generations, seem eternally valid.

For it seems that long before the first enterprising man bent some twigs into a leaky roof, many animals were already accomplished builders.

There is much to learn from architecture before it became an expert's art.