We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole.
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I loved medieval architecture when I was very small; I don't know why.
Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.
We think of medieval England as being a place of unbelievable cruelty and darkness and superstition. We think of it as all being about fair maidens in castles, and witch-burning, and a belief that the world was flat. Yet all these things are wrong.
The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof.
One of the problems with the fiasco of suburbia is that it destroyed our understanding of the distinction between the country and the town, between the urban and the rural. They're not the same thing.
Cities are about juxtaposition. In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like. In Bordeaux, we built law courts right next door to what is effectively a listed historic building, and that makes it exciting.
You cannot save wonderful towns. You can only save wonderful towns by building new ones.
The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.
I was brought up in Florence, a beautiful medieval town whose rhythm is completely in antiquity.
In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like.
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