A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
“Modern architecture has the potential to send you to an early grave.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“It is my trade," he said. "I work for the bean family, and every day there are deaths among the beans, mostly… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
Landscaping is the great cardinal sin of modern architecture. It's not your garden, it's not a park - it's a formless patch… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy. — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
Chaoyang Park Plaza is about how to carry the traditional culture into a new format in modern architecture. Instead of building a… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
The architectural profession gave the public 50 years of modern architecture and the public's response has been 10 years of the greatest… — George E Hartman Copy Share Image
I began to see new buildings, too, which were connected by futuristic walkways lit from beneath. Long, cool perspectives of modern architecture,… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
In the '60s when I was a student, there was this campaign to destroy 75 percent of the old buildings in Paris,… — Christian de Portzamparc Copy Share Image
“Modern architecture only becomes modern with its engagement with the media.” — Beatriz Colomina Copy Share Image
The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
Some authors regard morality in the same light as we regard modern architecture. Convenience is the first thing to be looked for. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Just growing up in Columbus, which is such a special place, small town with a Fortune 500 company's headquarters, the extraordinary modern… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The same way that mid century modern architecture was in the 50s, I want to be as a human being. New. Different.… — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
Mies van der Rohe's architecture and modern architecture in general suffered from not only being repetitive, but not explaining to the populous… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme,… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
I want to try to come away from that one directional, clear rectangular form. It's not used because it's the most beautiful… — Pipilotti Rist Copy Share Image
“What are the dead, anyway, but waves and energy? Light shining from a dead star? That, by the way, is a phrase… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
Many of the received models of modern architecture and planning owe their ultimate origin to the building code and public health reform… — Kenneth Frampton Copy Share Image
