Despite the persistent image of the architect as a heroic loner erecting monumental edifices through sheer force of will, the building art… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
One of the stated goals of the postmodern movement in architecture was a greater sensitivity to the people who live in or… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
There can be little question that the tall building presents one of the most difficult challenges to the architect. — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
One of the most persistent yet elusive dreams of the Modern Movement in architecture has been prefabrication: industrially made structures that can… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
High among the unpredictable variables that endanger the survival of worthy buildings are the vagaries of taste. — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
The Frankfurt Museum of Decorative Arts is a handsome building, which takes its cues from the riverside Biedermeier villa next to it,… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
A turning point in the public's perception of the building art came with the publication of Frank Lloyd Wright's 'An Autobiography' of… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
The magnificent lobby of the Chrysler Building - faced with rare marbles, aglitter with decorative metalwork, and surmounted by a ceiling painted… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Experimental architecture by its very nature is more prone to the depredations of time and natural elements than buildings made from conventional… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
The skyscraper style first advocated by Louis Sullivan - a tower of strongly vertical character with clear definitions among base, shaft, and… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Cost overruns are not uncommon in architecture, particularly for designs that depart from structural or technological norms, or demand a finer quality… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
The work that launched Snohetta into the architectural big leagues was their Oslo Opera House, which will certainly rank among the firm's… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
During the nineteenth century, the rapid emergence and proliferation of new manufacturing methods and building technologies led to the establishment of polytechnic… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Although there are countless tangents that a career in the building arts can take, it is nonetheless most unusual for a major… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
The financial benefits of prefabrication have never been as large as its advocates predicted, for although some labor costs can be reduced… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century exponents of prefabrication were certain it would supplant age-old traditions of individualized design and handcrafted construction. The building art… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Elevated locations imply elevated purposes, even in American cities departing as radically as Los Angeles does from the traditional planning patterns of the Eastern… — Martin Filler Copy Share
Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived. — Martin Filler Copy Share
The danger for any artist whose work is both recognizable and critically acclaimed is complacent repetition - the temptation to churn out easily identifiable,… — Martin Filler Copy Share
Architectural kitsch is most common in the commercial pop vernacular - typified by the Big Duck of 1931 in Flanders, New York, a Long… — Martin Filler Copy Share
The Frankfurt Museum of Decorative Arts is a handsome building, which takes its cues from the riverside Biedermeier villa next to it, and it… — Martin Filler Copy Share
The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and… — Martin Filler Copy Share
Postmodernism came nowhere close in quality to Modernism at its apogee, not least because that later style wholly lacked the social impetus that animated… — Martin Filler Copy Share
One reason I've never been a fan of graphic novels is because a central aspect of literature for me has always been imagining what… — Martin Filler Copy Share
The truth be told, the World Trade Center was neither a very good work of architecture nor a very successful piece of urbanism. Its… — Martin Filler Copy Share
During the modern period, the vanguard architect has usually relied on small residential jobs both to supply a steady income and to serve as… — Martin Filler Copy Share
We take from the art of the past what we need. The variable posthumous reputations of even the greatest artists and the unpredictable revivals… — Martin Filler Copy Share
Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the societal terrors posed by globalization, the most thoroughgoing socioeconomic… — Martin Filler Copy Share
The work that launched Snohetta into the architectural big leagues was their Oslo Opera House, which will certainly rank among the firm's highlights whatever… — Martin Filler Copy Share
There can be little question that the tall building presents one of the most difficult challenges to the architect. — Martin Filler Copy Share
The first half of the 1960s was the apogee of what might be termed the Age of Cool - as defined by that quality… — Martin Filler Copy Share
