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1 " A chair is the first thing you need when you don't really need anything and is, therefore, a particularly compelling symbol of civilisation. (Attributed to Ralph Caplan) "
― Witold Rybczynski , Now I Sit Me Down: From Klismos to Plastic Chair: A Natural History
2 " The truth is that a nineteenth-century warehouse exhibits greater craft in its construction than all but the most expensive modern buildings. "
― Witold Rybczynski
3 " I enjoy visiting building sites. Unlike the ordered anonymity of office bureaucracy or the featureless regularity of a factory assembly line, a building site appears disorderly and chaotic. In fact, there is organization, but it is a loose orchestration of many separate trademen, working side by side but not necessarily together. "
― Witold Rybczynski , Looking Around: A Journey Through Architecture
4 " There may be fewer people in the American house of the nineties, but there are a lot more things. "
