Back Quote by Jamais Cascio

Historically, in the world of architecture, enormous amounts of care and energy have been lavished on things that are almost a cliched idea of…

— Thomas Heatherwick

Most buildings, whether they're Gothic cathedrals or Romanesque ones, were high tech for their time.

— Richard Rogers

The younger generations have their own ideas, they have their own projects. When they talk, I am always surprised how much more lucid and…

— Miuccia Prada

“Within the overall structure of a project there is always room for individuality and craftsmanship… One hundred years from now, our engineering may seem…

— Cal Newport

As a kid growing up in the 1950s I became acutely aware of the changes taking place in American culture and I must say…

— Robert Crumb

Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.

— Victor Hugo

The family I'm from, well, no one had their name on big buildings. My family were builders of a different kind. Builders in the…

— Hillary Clinton

There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great…

— Christopher Alexander

A civilization is only a way of life. A culture is the way of making that way of life beautiful. So culture is your…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Moving swiftly between different arenas like politics, architecture or commercial design is what I would consider defintive of my generation. I am looking at…

— Sarah Morris

each generation devises better ways to survive. Civilization may, in one sense, be a tribute to the ingeniousness of some children in outwitting parents.

— Lucy Freeman

In the case of European towns, the passing of centuries provides an enhancement; in the case of American towns, the passing of years brings…

— Claude Levi-Strauss