Architectural Quote by Martin Filler

In this branch of utopian real estate, architecture is no longer the art of designing buildings so much as the brutal skyward extrusion of…

— Rem Koolhaas

We're moving from a generation who gave little thought as to the built environment and accepted housing that was neither pleasant to look at,…

— Will Gompertz

The general public, formerly profoundly indifferent to everything to do with building, has been shaken out of its torpor; personal interest in architecture as…

— Walter Gropius

The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of…

— John Green

There are so many constraints on the architect that public buildings almost never feel free or enjoyable.

— Toyo Ito

Architecture is the very mirror of life.You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit…

— I. M. Pei

“Modern architecture only becomes modern with its engagement with the media.”

— Beatriz Colomina

Buildings in modern cities have lost their metaphoric aspect. Much contemporary architecture is very fragmented and busy on the outside. It's like a skin…

— Mario Botta

I have approached the buildings as psychological and poetic manifestations - rather than from the more technical viewpoints of the architect and historian (which…

— Clarence John Laughlin

Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.

— Martin Filler

“architecture to spiritually uplift and thought it was a very bad idea to build functional, uninspired blocks of flats that would depress both their…

— Menna van Praag

In the '60s when I was a student, there was this campaign to destroy 75 percent of the old buildings in Paris, replacing them…

— Christian de Portzamparc