“Architecture traditionally has been the slowest of art forms. It was not unusual for great cathedrals to take centuries to complete, with stylistic changes from Romanesque to Gothic or Renaissance to Baroque as common as the addition of chapels or spires. But because the function remained the same, the form could be flexible and its growth organic.” Has BeensArtFormGrowthCommonCenturyFunctionArchitectureUnusualFlexibleGothicRenaissanceCathedralsChapelBaroqueSpires Author:Martin Filler
“Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of the Bauhaus - the epochally influential German art, architecture, crafts, and design school that was founded in Goethe's sleepy hometown of Weimar in 1919.” Has BeensArtSchoolDesignDevelopmentBraveArchitectureCraftsGloriousDoomedMisunderstoodInfluentialHometownSleepy Author:Martin Filler
“One of the most persistent yet elusive dreams of the Modern Movement in architecture has been prefabrication: industrially made structures that can be assembled at a building site.” Has BeensMadeDreamModernMovementBuildingStructureArchitectureSitePersistentElusive Author:Martin Filler
