Architecture Quote by Roger Scruton

Modernism is an outmoded way of thinking about design: it just doesn't reflect the way we live now. It always puts forward this idea…

— Marcel Wanders

I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody…

— Thom Mayne

The 'International Style of Modernism' came with the advent of building services. In the end, the architecture became like a container space, essentially like…

— Bjarke Ingels

All important architecture of the last century was strongly influenced by political systems. Look at the Soviet system, with its constructivism and Stalinism, Weimer…

— Rem Koolhaas

Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use…

— Tadao Ando

By Modernism, I mean the positive rejection of the past and the blind belief in the process of change; in novelty for its own…

— Dan Cruickshank

By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years more until…

— Martin Filler

We don't agree with the depiction of buildings in the '20s and 1930s. Things were seen either from above or below which tended to…

— Bernd Becher

My definition of modernism took a while to develop.

— Peter Gay

Modernism was a big thing for me, coming from a father who was very interested in art, music and culture - and almost always…

— Vito Acconci

The notion that you could discard the old world and now make a new one. This is what was so bad about Modernism.

— Jane Jacobs

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