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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

“Foundational design principles regarding aesthetics, symbolism and meaning of place were for the old-timer carpenter, simply routine. Unfortunately, these principles began to lose their…

— Shannon Taylor Scarlett

The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at the end…

— Martin Filler

Although there are countless tangents that a career in the building arts can take, it is nonetheless most unusual for a major architectural practice…

— Martin Filler

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

The building art is, in reality, always the spatial execution of spiritual decisions. It is bound to its times and manifests itself only in…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be

— Curtis W. Fentress

Most of what you see in architecture are watered-down ideas of sculptors who have come before.

— Richard Serra

Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.

— Arthur Erickson

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

— Anonymous

One of the stated goals of the postmodern movement in architecture was a greater sensitivity to the people who live in or use newly…

— Martin Filler

“...the Office's prime approach to architecture... is one of continuous ANTICIPATORY DESIGN.”

— Cedric Price