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*We are to be pitied for living in unworthy houses, since they ruin our health and our morale. It is our lot to have become sedentary- creatures ; our houses gnaw at us in our sluggishness, like a consumption. We shall soon need far too many sanatoriums. We are to be pitied. Our houses disgust us ; we fly from them and frequent restaurants and night clubs ; or we gather together in our houses gloomily and secretly like wretched animals ; we are becoming demoralized. p 14.
*Engineers fabricate the tools of their time. Everything, that is to say, except houses and moth-eaten boudoirs. p 14.A house is a machine for living in. p 91.
*When a problem is properly stated, in our epoch, it inevitably finds its solution.
*The number o f rooms : one for cooking and one for eating. One for work, one to wash yourself in and one for sleep.
*Such are the standards of the dwelling.p 114-5.
*Eradicate from your mind any hard and fast conceptions in regard to the dwelling-house and look at the question from an objective and critical angle, and you will inevitably arrive at the “ House-Tool,” the mass-production house, available for everyone, incomparably healthier than the old kind (and morally so too) and beautiful in the same sense that the working tools, familiar to us in our present existence, are beautiful. p 263.
*Everybody, quite rightly, dreams of sheltering himself in a sure and permanent home of his own. This dream, because it is impossible in the existing state of things, is deemed incapable of realization and so provokes an actual state of sentimental hysteria ; to build one’s own house is very much like making one’s will. p 263.