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“Before the professionalization of architecture in the nineteenth century, it was standard for an aspiring mason or carpenter to begin his apprenticeship at fourteen and to become a master builder by his early twenties.”

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Martin Filler

Martin Filler, born on September 17, 1948, is a prominent figure in the field of [Unknown Profession/Category]. more

“Cost overruns are not uncommon in architecture, particularly for designs that depart from structural or technological norms, or demand a finer quality of execution than commercial schemes - conditions typical of buildings for cultural institutions. Budgets are exceeded for many reasons, not all of them within an architect's control.”

Reason Quality Conditions Design Building Cost Demand Institutions Architecture Budgets Architect Execution Schemes Typical Technological Norm Uncommon

Author:Martin Filler

“Despite the persistent image of the architect as a heroic loner erecting monumental edifices through sheer force of will, the building art has always been a highly cooperative enterprise.”

Art Force Building Despite Enterprise Heroic Architect Sheer Persistent Loner Cooperatives Edifice Force Of Will

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.”

Ideas Jobs Modern Periods Scales Income Steady Architect Vanguard

Book:El siglo americano: The American century

Source: El siglo americano: The American century

“During the nineteenth century, the rapid emergence and proliferation of new manufacturing methods and building technologies led to the establishment of polytechnic schools that concentrated on the practicalities of engineering and construction rather than the niceties of stylistic correctness or adherence to established precedent.”

School Technology Century Building Method Construction Establishment Engineering Rapids Manufacturing Nineteenth Century Correctness Emergence Precedent Proliferation Practicality Adherence Niceties

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“Elevated locations imply elevated purposes, even in American cities departing as radically as Los Angeles does from the traditional planning patterns of the Eastern Seaboard.”

Doe Purpose Cities Patterns Planning Traditional Los Angeles Location Eastern American Cities Departing

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“Experimental architecture by its very nature is more prone to the depredations of time and natural elements than buildings made from conventional materials through traditional methods. Avant-garde architects often simply do not know how the products of their imagination will perform when implemented, especially if untested components are involved.”

Ifs Knows Made Imagination Natural Know How Building Materials Products Involved Elements Method Architecture Traditional Architect Conventional Components Avant Garde Natural Elements

Author:Martin Filler

“We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.”

Life Fear Ignorance Proportion Ignorance And Fear

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“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 Beens Art School Design Development Brave Architecture Crafts Glorious Doomed Misunderstood Influential Hometown Sleepy

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