Anything Quote by James Haven

We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that…

— Alain de Botton

It doesn't worry me that people have criticised the building.

— Harry Seidler

“Taking architecture seriously therefore makes some singular strenuous demands upon us. It requires that we open ourselves to the idea that we are affected…

— Alain de Botton

The general public, formerly profoundly indifferent to everything to do with building, has been shaken out of its torpor; personal interest in architecture as…

— Walter Gropius

Think about what happens when architecture becomes ruins. All you have left are some little columns on a cliff, but it's still such an…

— Santiago Calatrava

“The building collapse is an act of carelessness. Therefore, the action should be taken! Things should be taken into strict actions. People never saw…

— Fahmid Hassan Prohor

It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more…

— Alain de Botton

In a strange way, architecture is really an unfinished thing, because even though the building is finished, it takes on a new life. It…

— Daniel Libeskind

It's sad to see these old buildings go because they have so many memories, and it's a real personal kind of thing when you…

— Clarence Clemons

I usually point out that most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of…

— Charles Francis Richter

The architect works for so many years building it, and the moment you deliver it to the people is the moment when you are…

— Santiago Calatrava

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