Architecture Quote by Martin Filler Download Open image “Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.” — Martin Filler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architecture Career Hearted Profession Short lived Weak
The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions. — Helmut Jahn Copy Share Image
Architecture, in itself, at the end of the day, is a rational profession. — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place and it works over the generations because people… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if you make bad architecture,… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Architecture cannot be understood without some knowledge of the society it serves. — Hugh Casson Copy Share Image
I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity. — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
Elevated locations imply elevated purposes, even in American cities departing as radically as Los Angeles does from the traditional planning patterns of the Eastern… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
The danger for any artist whose work is both recognizable and critically acclaimed is complacent repetition - the temptation to churn out easily identifiable,… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Architectural kitsch is most common in the commercial pop vernacular - typified by the Big Duck of 1931 in Flanders, New York, a Long… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
The Frankfurt Museum of Decorative Arts is a handsome building, which takes its cues from the riverside Biedermeier villa next to it, and it… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure of future generations. This imperative rightfully takes precedence over acquisition, interpretation, outreach, or any number of other activities now believed to be crucial to the survival of our great art repositories. Sometimes a museum gains… — Martin Filler Copy Share
Postmodernism came nowhere close in quality to Modernism at its apogee, not least because that later style wholly lacked the social impetus that animated… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
One reason I've never been a fan of graphic novels is because a central aspect of literature for me has always been imagining what… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
The truth be told, the World Trade Center was neither a very good work of architecture nor a very successful piece of urbanism. Its… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
During the modern period, the vanguard architect has usually relied on small residential jobs both to supply a steady income and to serve as… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
We take from the art of the past what we need. The variable posthumous reputations of even the greatest artists and the unpredictable revivals… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the societal terrors posed by globalization, the most thoroughgoing socioeconomic… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
The work that launched Snohetta into the architectural big leagues was their Oslo Opera House, which will certainly rank among the firm's highlights whatever… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
The bones of my architecture are very much related to the structure, to the physical fact of how a building can stand up; it's… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around. He doesn't speak the language. He holds no currency. He is a foreign man. He is surrounded by the sound, sound of cattle in the marketplace, scatterlings and orphanages. He looks around, around he sees angels… — Paul Simon Copy Share
The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to,… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image
The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place. — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
A wiki works best where you're trying to answer a question that you can't easily pose, where there's not a natural structure that's known… — Ward Cunningham Copy Share Image
As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image