Ancient Quote by Martin Filler

One of the most persistent yet elusive dreams of the Modern Movement in architecture has been prefabrication: industrially made structures that can be assembled…

— Martin Filler

Nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century exponents of prefabrication were certain it would supplant age-old traditions of individualized design and handcrafted construction. The building art would be…

— Martin Filler

The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.

— Iain McGilchrist

In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this volume has…

— Hervey Allen

I think when we talk of craft we talk of a certain set of processes, whether that be clay of glass if jewelry or…

— Grayson Perry

The Romans spent the next 200 years using their great engineering skill to construct ruins all over Europe.

— Dave Barry

We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land. We smelted iron, danced, made music and…

— Richard Wright

My first workshop was in Rome, and that was the start of House of Waris. In a little magical atelier, a goldsmith, his apprentice,…

— Waris Ahluwalia

“Once, we built structures entirely from the most durable substances we knew: granite block, for instance. The results are still around today to admire,…

— Alan Weisman

Virtually any pointed edifice is considered a candidate for alien engineering. After all, how could the Egyptians or Mayans have possibly stacked up stone…

— Seth Shostak

Whether there were organized orders of builders in the early times no one can tell, through there may have been. No matter; man mixed…

— Joseph Fort Newton

I went to Goldsmith College of Art in London in the '80s and there I made sculptures, but the objects had nothing to do…

— Anonymous