ancestral roofs: a thought for a new year

Sunday, January 1, 2017

a thought for a new year

Simplicity.

This little lock-master's house in the snow and cedars at Lower Brewer's lock is simplicity itself.

A little icon to return to in what promises to be, well, that sort of year.

I wish this for you in your life also.

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Larry TaylerJanuary 2, 2017 at 9:04 AM
What a lovely thought...and what a lovely image. Thank you.
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Great Architecture reads

A Concise History of Canadian Architecture - Harold Kalman
A Field Guide to Building Watching - www.buildingwatch.blogspot.com
At Home in Upper Canada - Jeanne Minhinnick
Cobblestone Quest - Rich & Sue Freeman
Going to Town - Katherine Ashenburg
Homesteads - Margaret McBurney and Mary Byers
Identifying American Architecture - John Blumenson
Looking for Old Ontario - John McIlwraith
Neoclassical Architecture in Canada - Leslie Maitland
Old Niagara on the Lake - Peter Stokes
Old Ontario Houses - Cruikshank and De Visser
Old Toronto Houses - Cruikshank and De Visser
Ontario Architecture - John Blumenson
The Ancestral Roof - Marion Macrae
The Governor's Road - Mary Byers and Margaret McBurney
The Old Stones of Kingston - Margaret Angus
The Queen Anne Revival Style - Leslie Maitland
The Settler's Dream - Tom Cruikshank and Peter John Stokes
With Our Past Before Us - Jennifer McKendry

Great Architecture quotes

"The sins of the Architect are permanent sins" Frank Lloyd Wright, 1914
"In the end, we conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught." ~Baba Dioum, Senegalese poet (Posted in January on the ACO Acorn online)
"It is forbidden to disfigure external decorations on private buildings through modern additions and to spoil historic buildings in an important town out of avarice and the desire to make money." - Theodosius, Valentinianus, Arcadius (309 A.D.)
"It has been said that at its best, preservation engages the past in a conversation with the present over a mutual concern for the future" - William Murtagh (1988)
"Preservationists are the only people in the world who are invariably confirmed in their wisdom after the fact". - John Kenneth Galbraith (1979)
"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines" - Frank Lloyd Wright
"Architecture is the art of how to waste space" - Philip Johnson
"Architecture is frozen music" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ancestral Roofs

Sunday, January 1, 2017

a thought for a new year

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