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Been Quotes by Martin Filler
- 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…
- 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 moving…
- Despite the persistent image of the architect as a heroic loner erecting monumental edifices through sheer force of will, the building art has always been…
- 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…
- The financial benefits of prefabrication have never been as large as its advocates predicted, for although some labor costs can be reduced by machine manufacturing,…
- 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…
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