Collapse Quote by C. Northcote Parkinson

Amid a multitude of projects, no plan is devised.

— Publilius Syrus

Only architecture that considers human scale and interaction is successful architecture.

— Jan Gehl

Successful design is not the achievement of perfection but the minimization and accommodation of imperfection.

— Henry Petroski

A solid foundation is nothing without contemplation and strategies.

— Wazim Shaw

A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.

— Haruki Murakami

True architecture exists only where man stands in the center.

— Alvar Aalto

Perfection of planning is a symptom of decay. During a period of exciting discovery or progress, there is no time to plan the perfect…

— C. Northcote Parkinson

There are so many constraints on the architect that public buildings almost never feel free or enjoyable.

— Toyo Ito

There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.

— Edwin Lutyens

There will never be great architects or architecture without great patrons.

— Edwin Lutyens

Perfection can never be attained by work.

— Swami Vivekananda

Avant-garde architects have never been able to depend on the support of the establishment, since the customary patrons of this most conservative and slowly…

— Martin Filler