Architecture Quote by Tadao Ando

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

And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.

— John Crowe Ransom

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

— Kathy Acker

Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop.

— Leon Krier

I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.

— I. M. Pei

Modernism in architecture went hand in hand with socialist and fascist projects to rid old Europe of its hierarchical past

— 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

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

Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God.

— Bryan Appleyard

Modernism is typically defined as the condition that begins when people realize God is truly dead, and we are therefore on our own.

— Phillip E. Johnson

I think our sensibility is not modernist anymore, that is, sensibility of people who are interested in art and literature.

— Louis Menand

Modernist buildings exclude dialogue, and the void that they create around themselves is not a public space but a desertification

— Roger Scruton