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Architecture Quotes by Martin Filler
- Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.
- Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken.
- Truly great architecture always transcends its stated function, sometimes in unanticipated ways.
- All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right angles…
- Architecture traditionally has been the slowest of art forms. It was not unusual for great cathedrals to take centuries to complete, with stylistic changes from…
- Before the professionalization of architecture in the nineteenth century, it was standard for an aspiring mason or carpenter to begin his apprenticeship at fourteen and…
- Considering my specialization in architecture, I'm not surprised that the first graphic novel to thoroughly engage, not to say captivate, me is Chip Kidd and…
- Cost overruns are not uncommon in architecture, particularly for designs that depart from structural or technological norms, or demand a finer quality of execution than…
- Experimental architecture by its very nature is more prone to the depredations of time and natural elements than buildings made from conventional materials through traditional…
- Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of the Bauhaus -…
- One of the most persistent yet elusive dreams of the Modern Movement in architecture has been prefabrication: industrially made structures that can be assembled at…
- One of the stated goals of the postmodern movement in architecture was a greater sensitivity to the people who live in or use newly designed…
- The truth be told, the World Trade Center was neither a very good work of architecture nor a very successful piece of urbanism. Its shortcomings…
- There is no sadder tale in the annals of architecture than the virtual disappearance of the defining architectural form of the Modern Movement - publicly…
- By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years more until Postmodernism…
- The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at the end of…
More Architecture Quotes
- I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one. — Luis Barragan
- My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience. — Luis Barragan
- Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money. — Ambrose Bierce
- No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language. — Theodore Bikel
- Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a… — Alvar Aalto
- We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the… — Alvar Aalto
- A picture is worth a thousand words. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities… — Alvar Aalto
- Architecture is inhabited sculpture. — Constantin Brancusi
- The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our… — Alvar Aalto
- I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert… — Dan Brown
- Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has… — Dan Brown