Building Quote by Roger Scruton

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

What the people are within, the buildings express without.

— Louis Sullivan

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

Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that.

— Frank Gehry

“The notion of buildings that speak helps us to place at the very centre of our architectural conundrums the question of the values we…

— Alain de Botton

I don't believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind

— Tadao Ando

And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.

— John Crowe Ransom

We try to turn buildings into landscapes - defying the idea of modernism which sees nature and buildings as two distinct elements.

— Ma Yansong

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

Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always…

— Leon Krier

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

I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist?

— Kathy Acker