A House is a Machine for Living in

You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces.

Clare House, Bow, Tower Hamlets, E9

That is construction. Ingenuity is at work.

Marble Hill House, Richmond Road, Twickenham, TW1

But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, I am happy and I say: “This is beautiful.”

Chamberlin, Powell and Bon's Barbican Estate, Barbican, City of London, EC1A

That is Architecture. Art enters in.

Dolls House, Hollytrees Museum, Colchester, Essex, CO1

From Le Corbusier’s Towards a New Architecture (1923)

Maggie’s London

“You’re the only girl I’ve seen for a long time…

Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners' Maggie's Cancer Caring Centre, Fulham Palace Road, Hammersmith, W6

that actually did look like something blooming.”

Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners’ Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centre, Fulham Palace Road, Hammersmith, W6

From F Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night (1934)

Coin Street

“No quiff can give Abe Kusich the fingeroo and get away with it,” he said bitterly. 

Haworth Tompkins Architects' Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre, Lambeth, SE1

“Not when I can get her leg broke for twenty bucks and I got twenty.” 

Haworth Tompkins Architects' Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre, Lambeth, SE1

From Nathanael West’s The Day of the Locust (1939)