About Quote by David Chipperfield

Modernism in architecture went hand in hand with socialist and fascist projects to rid old Europe of its hierarchical past

— Roger Scruton

I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody…

— Thom Mayne

Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.

— Toyo Ito

It’s time for architecture to do things again, not just represent things.

— Joshua Prince-Ramus

Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history but it’s not very deep. I understand that time…

— I. M. Pei

Classicism becomes avant-garde when everyone else is doing their utmost to develop new stylistic forms. I think it's healthy to return to classical forms.

— Michael Haneke

“Architecture is a fuzzy amalgamation of ancient knowledge and contemporary practice, an awkward way to look at the world and an inadequate medium to…

— Rem Koolhaas

All important architecture of the last century was strongly influenced by political systems. Look at the Soviet system, with its constructivism and Stalinism, Weimer…

— Rem Koolhaas

“A revolution which can transform modes of production but not types of speech, social relations but not styles of architecture, remains radically incomplete.”

— Terry Eagleton

In order for architecture to experience its ongoing evolution as a language, there has to be a lot of adjusted copies between how architects…

— Jimenez Lai

Architecture, like dance, is also a language - one that everybody understands.

— Santiago Calatrava

Architecture and war are not incompatible. Architecture is war. War is architecture. I am at war with my time, with history, with all authority…

— Lebbeus Woods