Absurd Quote by Thom Mayne

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

Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history but it’s not very deep. I understand that time…

— I. M. Pei

Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place and it works over the generations because people…

— Frank Gehry

“Architecture is a fuzzy amalgamation of ancient knowledge and contemporary practice, an awkward way to look at the world and an inadequate medium to…

— Rem Koolhaas

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

“Despite their claims to a purely scientific and reasoned approach, the relationship of Modernist architects to their work remained at base a romantic one;…

— Alain de Botton

Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.

— Kenzo Tange

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

— Roger Scruton

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

I don't believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: 'So what else is new?'

— Peter Eisenman

I think architecture could be understood as the construction of realities, or the construction of worlds. One of the reasons why architects are often…

— Jimenez Lai

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