The most economical way of obtaining good results is to apply the great, fundamental principles of art; and depend on them for beauty, rather than up… - Ernest Flagg

2d. Saving space: (a) By the utilization of the large volume of space contained in the slopes of roofs... (b) by the reduction of floor thickness... (c) by the utilization of space (as on shipboard) for lockers, cupboards, closets, etc... (d) by the use of thin partitions... and (e) by elimination of corridors... so that the least possible area may be required for communication.

In the human form, as nature tries to make it, every feature is useful and every feature is beautiful. Each member is perfectly adapted to the function it has to perform; nothing is superfluous, yet the whole and every part is supremely decorative.

For more than two thousand years architectural design by the use of a modulus, except in the case of the classic orders, had been a lost art.