Things happen for a reason Quote by Federal Writers' Project Of The Wor

“...architects (should) involve themselves continuously in anticipatory design as recommended by Buckminster Fuller”

— Cedric Price

“architecture to spiritually uplift and thought it was a very bad idea to build functional, uninspired blocks of flats that would depress both their…

— Menna van Praag

“Architecture domesticates limitless space and enables us to inhabit it [...]”

— Juhani Pallasmaa

“I looked up in curiosity. Behind us stood the Brown and Eagle Wool Warehouse and Schneider's Cap Factory, both constructed with that wholehearted devotion…

— Lyndsay Faye

“Modernism isn't a design ethos any more, it's an economy of scale, and a marketing tool to sell the ordinary as something special, the…

— Nick Harkaway

People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing…

— Rem Koolhaas

Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up.

— Louis Kahn

For America today organic architecture interprets (will eventually build) this local embodiment of human freedom. This natural architecture seeks spaciousness, grace and openness; lightness…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.

— Moshe Safdie

The perennial architectural debate has always been, and will continue to be, about art versus use, visions versus pragmatism, aesthetics versus social responsibility. In…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

“I see the task of architecture as the defence of the authenticity of human experience. -Juhani Pallasmaa”

— Louisa Thomsen Brits

One of the stated goals of the postmodern movement in architecture was a greater sensitivity to the people who live in or use newly…

— Martin Filler