The Secret Lives of Buildings: From the Ruins of the Parthenon to the Vegas Strip in Thirteen Stories (52 page)

159
   “
What he handed down was in any case not refined”:
Leon Battista Alberti,
On the Art of Building in Ten Books
, trans. Joseph Rykwert, Neil Leach, and Robert Tavernor (MIT Press, 1988), p. 154.

159
   “
What we have written
”: Ibid., p. 155.

159
   “
Examples of ancient temples
”: Ibid., p. 154.

161
   “
The greatest ornament to the forum
”: Ibid., p. 265.

162
   “
I affirm again with Pythagoras
”: Ibid., p. 301.

162
   “
Beauty is that reasoned harmony
”: Ibid., p. 156.

162
   “
Greetings. Your letters
”: Quoted in Robert Tavernor,
On Alberti and the Art of Building
(Yale University Press, 1998), p. 61.

163
   “
As for the business of the pier
”: Quoted in ibid., p. 61.

164
   “
If someone will come here
”: Quoted in ibid., p. 61.

164
   “
Wherever there was some noble stone
”: Quoted in Alberti,
Leon Battista Alberti: Complete Edition
, p. 166.

165
   “
Divine Vespasian
”: Quoted in ibid., p. 166.

S
ANS
S
OUCI
, P
OTSDAM

173
   “
There was a nobility and harmony
”: Franz Kugler,
Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Eine Characteristik siner kuenstlerishchen Wirksamheit
(Berlin, 1842), first published in the
Hallesche Jahrbuecher
, 1838.

174
   “
The description of nature
”: Quoted in Barry Bergdoll,
Karl Friedrich Schinkel: An Architecture for Prussia
(Rizzoli, 1994), p. 156.

177
   “
If God made the world for me
”: Quoted in Nancy Mitford,
Frederick the Great
(Penguin, 1970), p. 79.

177
   “
Quand je serai là
”: Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland,
Filmreihe: Schätze der Welt
—
Erbe der Menschheit
, p. 11 (German, PDF, n.d.),
http://www.kah-bonn.de/bibliothek/schaetze_pr.pdf
.

181
   “
ennobles all human relationships
”: Quoted in Michael Snodin,
Karl Friedrich Schinkel: A Universal Man
(Yale University Press, 1991), p. 1.

181
   “
They consisted of a series of villas
”: Diary entry of Field Marshal Alanbrooke, chief of the general staff, 15 July 1945, quoted in Alex Danchev and Daniel Todman, eds.,
War Diaries, 1939—1945: Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke
(Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2001), p. 705.

181
   “
All the Germans have of course
”: Letter from Sir Alexander Cadogan, permanent undersecretary, Foreign Office, to his wife, 15 July 1945, in David Dilks, ed.,
The Diaries of Sir Alexander Cadogan, 1938–1945
(Cassell, 1971), pp. 761–62.

182
   
I spared that beautiful country as far as possible
”: Quoted in Mitford,
Frederick the Great
, p. 200.

182
   “
Admit that war is a cruel thing
”: Quoted in ibid., p. 145.

182
   “
in the end God will take pity on us
”: Quoted in ibid., p. 215.

182
   “
Hats off, gentlemen!
”: Quoted in ibid., p. 291.

183
   “
the bestial stench of revolution
”: Hubertus Löwenstein,
The Germans in History
(Columbia University Press, 1945), p. 271.

184
   “
Deep into the most distant jungles
”: Quoted in Dr. Annika Mombauer, “Germany’s Last Kaiser—Wilhelm II and Political Decision-Making in Imperial Germany,”
New Perspective
4, no. 3 (March 1999),
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~semp/wilhelmii.htm
.

185
   “
Devastation of Potsdam terrible
”: Anthony Eden,
The Reckoning: The Eden Memoirs
, vol. 2 (Cassell, 1965), p. 545.

185
   “
My hate had died with their surrender
”: Quoted in Martin Gilbert,
Churchill: A Life
(Minerva, 1991), p. 850.

N
OTRE
D
AME DE
P
ARIS

191
   “
The story of the arsonists
”: Guy Debord, “Sur La Commune” (1963), quoted in Ken Knabb, ed. and trans.,
Situationist International Anthology
(Bureau of Public Secrets, 2006), p. 400,
http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/Pariscommune.htm
.

193
   “
The artist must efface himself
”: Eugene Viollet-le-Duc and Jean-Baptiste Lassus,
Project de Restauration de Notre Dame de Paris
(Lacombe, 1845) (trans. by the author),
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18920/18920-h/18920-h.htm
.

193
   “
It was necessary to perform
”: Ibid.

194
   “
It is impossible to conserve the form
”: Ibid.

194
   “
We think therefore that the replacement
”: Ibid.

195
   “
The only espaliers he could conceive
”: Victor Hugo,
Notre Dame of Paris
, trans. John Sturrock (Penguin, 2004), p. 177.

196
   “
some goodwives, milk-jugs in hand
”: Ibid., p. 486.

196
   “
raised his eye to the gypsy
”: Ibid., p. 490.

197
   “
I have visited
your
Notre Dame
”: Adèle Hugo,
Victor Hugo, by a Witness of His Life
, trans. Charles Edwin Wilbour (New York: Carleton, 1863), p. 172.

197
   “
What a shame”:
http://www.georgianindex.net/Napoleon/coronation/coronation.html
.

203
   “
Great buildings, like great mountains”:
Hugo,
Notre Dame of Paris
, p. 129.

204
   “
that divine creation
”: Ibid., p. 124.

205
   “
the term
restoration
and the thing itself
”: Viollet-le-Duc,
Dictionnaire Raisonné
, quoted in M. F. Hearn, ed.,
The Architectural Theory of Viollet le Duc: Readings and Commentary
(MIT Press, 1990), p. 269.

205
   “
a destruction accompanied”:
John Ruskin,
Seven Lamps of Architecture: The Lamp of Memory
, quoted in Jukka Jokilehto,
The History of Architectural Conservation
(Butterworth Heinemann, 1999), p. 175.

205
   “
Surely it is a curious thing
”: William Morris,
History and Architecture
, quoted in Chris Miele, ed.,
William Morris on Architecture
(Sheffield Academic Press, 1996), p. 118.

205
   “
Watch an old building”:
Ruskin,
Seven Lamps of Architecture
, quoted in Jokilehto,
The History of Architectural Conservation
, p. 180.

205
   “
If it has become inconvenient
”: William Morris,
Manifesto of the SPAB
, quoted in Miele,
William Morris on Architecture
, p. 55.

205
   “
We understand the rigour of these principles”
: Viollet-le-Duc and Lassus,
Project de Restauration
(trans. by the author).

206
   “
Gothic construction
”: Viollet-le-Duc,
Rational Building
, from
Dictionnaire Raisonné
, quoted in Hearn,
The Architectural Theory of Viollet le Duc
, p. 116.

T
HE
H
ULME
C
RESCENTS
, M
ANCHESTER

211
   “
Hello, good evening
”:
www.exhulme.co.uk/page2.php
.

212
   “
A Mini Town with All Mod Cons”: Manchester Evening News
, 4 June 1969, quoted in Rob Ramwell and Hilary Saltburn,
Trick or Treat? City Challenge and the Regeneration of Hulme
(North British Housing Association and the Guinness Trust, 1998), p. 5.

212
   “
It is our endeavour at Hulme”:
Quoted in
Trick or Treat?
, p. 5.

212
   “
In a rather deep hole
”: Friedrich Engels,
The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844
, quoted in ibid., p. 2.

213
   “
Abolition of property in land
”: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels,
Manifesto of the Communist Party
(1848),
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/cho2.htm
.

214
   “
Communists know only too well
”: Friedrich Engels,
The Principles of Communism
(1847),
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm
.

214
   “
We will sing of great crowds”:
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti,
The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism
(1909),
http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/T4PM/futurist-manifesto.html
.

215
   “
We stand on the last promontory of the centuries
”: Ibid.

215
   “
In spite of disease and death”: Manchester Guardian
, 10 January 1923, quoted in Ramwell and Saltburn,
Trick or Treat?”
, p. 2.

216
   “
unlocks all the doors to the urbanism of modern times
”: Le Corbusier,
The Athens Charter
(Grossman, 1973) (1st ed., 1943), p. xiv.

216
   “
An immense, total mutation
”: Ibid.

216
   “
the Charter must be placed
”: Ibid., pp. 25—26.

217
   “
a three-dimensional, not a two-dimensional, science
”: Ibid., p. 105.

218
   “
Why are you showing me this desolation?
”: Quoted in Miles Glendinning and Stephan Muthesius,
Tower Block: Modern Public Housing in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
(Yale University Press, 1994), p. 256.

219
   “
The planning brief for Hulme stage 5
”: Minutes of meeting of Housing Committee, 6 July 1966, quoted in Manchester Housing Workshop,
Hulme Crescents: Council Housing Chaos in the 1970s
(Moss Side Community Press Women’s Co-op, 1980), p. 4.

219
   “
a high quality of finish
”: Ibid., p. 5.

219
   “
I was four
”: “Caroline,” 15 November 2007, quoted in
www.exhulme.co.uk
.

222
   “
A list to be drawn up
”: Quoted in Ramwell and Saltburn,
Trick or Treat?
, p. 7.

222
   “
The day I moved in was 11th Dec
”: Compost City 2: blog page on Hulme Crescents MySpace page, posted 18 December 2006,
http://myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=55432167&blogId=206922483.

222
   
Moved to Hulme in 1982:
“Karen,” 22 April 2007, quoted in
www.exhulme.co.uk
.

223
   “
Remember Queenie?
”: Ibid.

224
   “
Punks, goths, ratios
”: Hulme Crescents MySpace page, “would like to meet.”