Architecture Quote by Martin Filler

Cathedrals do not seem to me to have been built. They seem, rather, stupendous growths of nature, like crystals, or cliffs of basalt.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.

— Oscar Niemeyer

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

— Richard Rogers

When I started studying architecture, people would say, you know, 'Can you tell me why are all modern buildings so boring?' Because, like, people…

— Bjarke Ingels

While there are so many beautiful Baroque churches and it's a beautiful artistic tradition, it almost gets hideous and grotesque if you push it…

— Win Butler

Over the last 30 years there have been a steadily growing number of architects who are returning to traditional and classical principles.

— Quinlan Terry

The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.

— Tadao Ando

Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history but it’s not very deep. I understand that time…

— I. M. Pei

All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right…

— Martin Filler

Modern building has become so universally conditioned by optimized technology that the possibility of creating significant urban form has become extremely limited.

— Kenneth Frampton

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and…

— Rem Koolhaas

Modern architecture is not a style, it's an attitude

— Marcel Breuer