Architecture Quote by Charles Jencks

In the '60s when I was a student, there was this campaign to destroy 75 percent of the old buildings in Paris, replacing them…

— Christian de Portzamparc

When I was studying architecture in the 1970s, it was intellectually bankrupt.

— Elizabeth Diller

I saw something in a program on something in Miami, and they were saying, "We've redecorated this building to how it looked over 50…

— Eddie Izzard

There is no sadder tale in the annals of architecture than the virtual disappearance of the defining architectural form of the Modern Movement -…

— Martin Filler

“In October, 1942, the order was given to exhume the bodies and incinerate them on mass pyres using railroad rails as makeshift grills. The…

— Matthew A. Rozell

Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture.

— James Wyatt

In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived…

— Uwe Boll

“And as it quickly became clear, there were not very many survivors to find. Only fourteen people were pulled out of the rubble alive,…

— Lauren Tarshis

One might regard architecture as history arrested in stone.

— A. L. Rowse

I didn't know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I don't even think that I knew the word for a…

— Antoine Predock

To really appreciate architecture, you may even need to commit a murder.

— Bernard Tschumi

“I crumpled up a piece of paper and threw it in the garbage. Then I quickly snatched it out, because hell, I’d just tossed…

— Jarod Kintz