Ernest Flagg Quote

We here have... an architectural discovery which may prove of inestimable value to future art.... Like fire, it is a good servant but a bad master. The danger is that it may lead to a cramped and mechanical design. One may easily become a slave to the module, and do things because of it which his taste or reason would not otherwise commend.... How can the danger be avoided and the benefits secured?


Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)


We here have... an architectural discovery which may prove of inestimable value to future art.... Like fire, it is a good servant but a bad master....

We here have... an architectural discovery which may prove of inestimable value to future art.... Like fire, it is a good servant but a bad master....

We here have... an architectural discovery which may prove of inestimable value to future art.... Like fire, it is a good servant but a bad master....

We here have... an architectural discovery which may prove of inestimable value to future art.... Like fire, it is a good servant but a bad master....