Hugh Ferriss Quotes

• The character of the architectural forms and spaces which all people habitually encounter are powerful agencies in determining the nature of their thoughts, their emotions and their actions, however unconscious of this they may be.

  Hugh Ferriss

  Powerful, Character, Agency

  Hugh Ferriss (2012). “The Metropolis of Tomorrow”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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• As the avenues and streets of a city are nothing less than its arteries and veins, we may well ask what doctor would venture to promise bodily health if he knew that the blood circulation was steadily growing more congested!

  Hugh Ferriss

  Doctors, Blood, Cities

  Hugh Ferriss (2012). “The Metropolis of Tomorrow”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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• A 60-story tower in New York evokes a 70-story tower in Chicago [and] a 60-story tower in New York evokes a 70-story tower directly across the street.

  Hugh Ferriss

  New York, Chicago, Towers

  Jean Ferriss Leich, Hugh Ferriss (1980). “Architectural visions: the drawings of Hugh Ferriss”

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