Architecture Quote by 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

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

— Curtis W. Fentress

Although prefabrication has a long history - the ancient Romans shipped pre-cut stone columns, pediments, and other architectural elements to their colonies in North…

— Martin Filler

When the materials are ready, the architects shall appear.

— Walt Whitman

The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US.

— Le Corbusier

When the materials are all prepared and ready, the architects shall appear.

— Walt Whitman

The room is the beginning of architecture.

— Louis Kahn

Architecture is invention.

— Oscar Niemeyer

I object to the hegemony of form in contemporary architecture. We have very advanced technological tools, but ultimately, we create buildings exactly like we…

— Neri Oxman

I have a very strong sense of architecture in my novels. But at first it's sometimes like building a doorknob before you have a…

— Nicole Krauss

Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful, to put…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

— Kenneth Frampton