Reed Kroloff Quotations

When you think that the population of metropolitan New Orleans before Katrina was 485,000 and it's now 150,000, so two-thirds of the city is gone. The question of how to rebuild becomes very difficult.

The creation of this sugarplum fairy vision of what a city looks like or can look like is an unnecessary, and I think, slightly insulting view of human intelligence.

New Orleans - along with San Francisco - is the greatest collection of 18th-, 19th- and early-20th-century residential architecture in the United States. You're talking about miles and miles of historic properties. But saving the historic context does not mean necessarily rebuilding everything in it. I don't think you build a bad 21st-century copy of a brilliant 19th-century building.

Peter's essay on matter-of-factedness sucked big time but how can you not love Peter. He's such a sweet boy.

I don't know what's left. Maybe part of it is there and part of it isn't.

Didn't you say that you have to be consistent? Well how come you didn't show up at the movies, he didn't show up at crazy wisdom and how come every time you're in the school of architecture-I just can't get in?

The roof might be gone, or a giant oak tree has crashed through a window.

Sow a seed and let it grow, you never know where love will grow.

This is the only place in America where the historic neighborhoods aren't the exception, it's the non-historic neighborhoods that are the exception.

Sober and not gay? Perfect. Just finish what you started - if it never stops.

I miss Juan and Peter. Now that I'm back there are no more Juan's and Peter's. I shouldn't have left for Singapore. Now that I'm back, I've lost them again. I miss being in the classroom. When is Juan going to turn into reed?

Gatherings like this allow us to begin to look at the whole range, from individual buildings, to larger symbolic buildings, to the landscape itself.