Architecture Quote by Ada Louise Huxtable Download Open image “Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.” — Ada Louise Huxtable ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architecture Postmodernism Pursuit Style Unapologetic
Postmodernism - and is that term used much any more? - is simply a reiteration of the sophistic or the rhetorical worldview. — David Roochnik Copy Share Image
Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupationshave ceased to function,… — Gilbert Adair Copy Share Image
what exactly is postmodernism, except modernism without the anxiety? — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Postmodernity is said to be a culture of fragmentary sensations, eclectic nostalgia, disposable simulacra, and promiscuous superficiality, in which the traditionally valued qualities of… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“Postmodernism has turned into this devil's vortex where no matter what you do, your neck will be turned and your face shoved into a… — Brian Celio Copy Share Image
Postmodernity is the simultaneity of the destruction of earlier values and their reconstruction. It is renovation within ruination. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
From my perspective, 'postmodernism' merely names an interesting set of developments in the social order that is based on the presumption that God does… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives. — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is… — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
“Postmodernism is not a theory or a creed: it is more like an attitude or a way of looking at things. It didn’t drop… — Heath White Copy Share Image
To the extent that we live in a postmodern world and it shapes the concrete circumstances of our daily lives, I would say postmodernism… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
It is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an age that has forgotten… — Fredric Jameson Copy Share Image
No matter what an architect may be at home, he becomes a monumentalist when he comes to Washington. — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of people in the world - those who have a horror of a vacuum and those with a horror of… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
One of the most basic human instincts is the need to decorate. Nothing is exempt - the body, the objects one uses, from intimate… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on. — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
the search for the ultimate skyscraper goes on. ... At worst, overbuilding will make urban life unbearable. At best, we will go out in… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
Beauty or beast, the modern skyscraper is a major force with a strong magnetic field. It draws into its physical being all of the… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
Who’s afraid of the big, bad buildings? Everyone, because there are so many things about gigantism that we just don’t know. The gamble of… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel. — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush. — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind. — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty. — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
The bones of my architecture are very much related to the structure, to the physical fact of how a building can stand up; it's… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to,… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image
The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place. — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
A wiki works best where you're trying to answer a question that you can't easily pose, where there's not a natural structure that's known… — Ward Cunningham Copy Share Image
Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived. — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
