“The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at the end of the twentieth century: whether the new forms made possible by technology are doomed by the low calculations of modern patrons and their architects.” MenMadeEndsFormTechnologyModernCenturyBuildingLowsArchitectureTallArchitectDoomedTwentieth CenturyDilemmaCalculationsConcentratingPatronTall Buildings Author:Martin Filler
“There is no sadder tale in the annals of architecture than the virtual disappearance of the defining architectural form of the Modern Movement - publicly sponsored housing.” FormModernMovementArchitectureTalesHousingDefiningDisappearance Author:Martin Filler
“During the modern period, the vanguard architect has usually relied on small residential jobs both to supply a steady income and to serve as 'sketches' for ideas that are often later translated to the larger scale of public commissions.” IdeasJobsModernPeriodsScalesIncomeSteadyArchitectVanguard Book:El siglo americano: The American century Source: El siglo americano: The American century
“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
“Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers's Centre Georges Pompidou of 1971-1977 - the true prototype of the modern museum as popular architectural spectacle - wound up costing so much more than planned that the French government solved the shortfall by cutting support for several regional museums.” GovernmentSupportCuttingModernWoundsPianoMuseumsCentreRogerPrototype Author:Martin Filler
“When Oscar Niemeyer died on December 5, 2012, ten days before his 105th birthday, he was universally regarded as the very last of the twentieth century's major architectural masters, an astonishing survivor whose most famous accomplishment, Brasilia, was the climactic episode of utopian High Modern urbanism.” LastsModernCenturyMastersTenMajorsDiedAccomplishmentSurvivorEpisodesOscarsTwentieth CenturyAstonishingDecemberUtopian Author:Martin Filler
“Winning the Pritzker assures a flood of work in one's seventies and eighties, jobs necessarily carried out by assistants as the demands of modern-day cultural stardom and the inevitable waning of physical capacities prevent many architects from attaining the transcendent final phase more easily achieved by artists in other mediums.” JobsArtistWinningModernDemandCapacityFinalsMediumsInevitableArchitectPhasesFloodSeventiesEightyAssistantsTranscendentStardomModern Day Author:Martin Filler
