Quotations

All information taken from literature must be correctly indicated in a footnote!
Your term papers and theses should contain your original ideas in your own words, but you will also discuss original sources and thoughts from secondary literature (research work). Every idea you take from the literature, must be indicated.
Quote correctly! Check the quote after having copied it from the source.
Double quotation marks – “….” – and footnote.
A quote that is longer than three lines should be indented (1 cm left and right)

Example:

“There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings; that man is richest who, having perfected the function of his own life to the utmost, has always the widest helpful influence, both personal, and by means of his possessions, over the lives of others.”¹
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¹ John Ruskin, “Unto the Last (written and first published, 1860),” in: E.T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, eds., The Works of John Ruskin, London: George Allen, 1905, p. 105.

If you quote literally, you have to refer to or discuss the contents of the quotation.
Do not quote, because you are not able to find the right words. For example, do not substitute your own description and analysis of a work of art with a text from secondary literature.
If you quote an original source after secondary literature (only if there is no scholarly critical edition) you have to indicate that in the note as “quoted after …” or “quoted from … .”
Better quote from original sources, if possible, such as from critical editions.
If you quote from translations of original sources, you have to indicate that.
If you translate the quote yourself, you have to indicate that:

“translation mine”
“if not otherwise indicated, all translations of the quotes are mine”

The punctuation mark is always before the last quotation mark.

“Learning from the existing landscape is a way of being revolutionary for an architect. Not the obvious way, which is to tear down Paris and begin again, as Le Corbusier suggested in the 1920s, but another, more tolerant way; that is, to question how we look at things.”¹
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¹ Robert Venturi [et al.], Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form, Cambridge, Mass., and London: The MIT Press, p. 3.