Designing Your Perfect House Quotes

“Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.” —Ludwig Mies van der Rohe”
― William J. Hirsch Jr., Designing Your Perfect House: Lessons from an Architect

“Composed together into architectural sentences, the rooms, (nouns), doors and windows, (verbs), details, (adjectives and adverbs), and the special features and accents, (interjections), become the prose of architecture. Unfortunately, just like in writing, some sentences are doomed to be pulp fiction. Your Perfect House can be better than that. It should be destined to become great literature.”
― William J. Hirsch Jr., Designing Your Perfect House: Lessons from an Architect

“Why Build a House? When people hear I’m an architect, some ask, “Why would I ever want to build a house? Isn’t that a lot of trouble to go through? Why wouldn’t I just want to buy a house that’s already built?” It’s a great question, and it’s worth spending a moment or two to consider. Essentially, when you design and build a house, you get to adjust the house to fit your needs and desires instead of having to adjust yourself to fit an existing house. It’s a little like going to the clothing store and having a suit custom made for you instead of buying a suit coat off the rack that almost fits. Yes, the custom-made suit costs more, but you feel so good when you wear it. It fits perfectly, it looks great, and you find yourself walking taller and being happier just because you’re wearing that beautiful suit.”
― William J. Hirsch Jr., Designing Your Perfect House: Lessons from an Architect

“Why Build a House? When people hear I’m an architect, some ask, “Why would I ever want to build a house? Isn’t that a lot of trouble to go through? Why wouldn’t I just want to buy a house that’s already built?” It’s a great question, and it’s worth spending a moment or two to consider. Essentially, when you design and build a house, you get to adjust the house to fit your needs and desires instead of having to adjust yourself to fit an existing house. It’s a little like going to the clothing store and having a suit custom made for you instead of buying a suit coat off the rack that almost fits. Yes, the custom-made suit costs more, but you feel so good when you wear it. It fits perfectly, it looks great, and you find yourself walking taller”
― William J. Hirsch Jr., Designing Your Perfect House: Lessons from an Architect

“The Golden Mean It’s almost impossible to discuss composition in architecture without referring to the golden mean, also called the golden section. Readers of Dan Brown’s mega-bestseller The Da Vinci Code may recall the description of that formula in the book. As a brief refresher, the golden mean is the original organizing and proportioning method or formula for art and architecture. Its theory tells us that human beings are most pleased when things are in a proportion of 1 to 1.618.”
― William J. Hirsch Jr., Designing Your Perfect House: Lessons from an Architect

“But Mom, I am one of the greatest architects of all times, I’m the founder of modern architecture, I can’t do a traditional house for y….Aoutch! Okay, Okay.” –attributed to Le Corbusier”
― William J. Hirsch Jr., Designing Your Perfect House: Lessons from an Architect

“A well-designed house offers a clear and comfortable sequential progression from public spaces to private.”
― William J. Hirsch Jr., Designing Your Perfect House: Lessons from an Architect

“Envision a House Built to stand the test of time Meant to be the home”
― William J. Hirsch Jr., Designing Your Perfect House: Lessons from an Architect

“If you are considering a two-story space with a balcony overlooking from above, keep in mind the potential sound transfer problem that can happen when the sounds from downstairs reflect off of the walls and reverberate into the bedrooms above. You can help ameliorate this by making sure the bedroom doors are somewhat remote from the second-floor balcony.”
― William J. Hirsch Jr., Designing Your Perfect House: Lessons from an Architect