“Metal buildings are the dream that Modern Architects had at the beginning of this century. It has finally come true, but they themselves don't realize it. That's because it doesn't take an Architect to build a metal building. You just order them out of a catalog - comes with a bunch of guys who put it together in a couple of days, maybe a week. And there you go - you're all set to go into business - just slap a sign out front.” DreamTogetherGuyOrderRealizingWeekModernCenturyFrontsBuildingCoupleArchitectureBunchMetalsArchitectSlap Author:David Byrne
“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
“The skyscraper and the twentieth century are synonymous; the tall building is the landmark of our age. ... Shaper of cities and fortunes, it is the dream, past and present, acknowledged or unacknowledged, of almost every architect.” DreamAgePastCitiesCenturyBuildingFortuneArchitectureTallArchitectTwentieth CenturyPast And PresentLandmarksSkyscraperTall Buildings Book:On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change Source: On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change
“I sell architecture better and more directly and more vividly than the architect does... The average architect is stupid. He doesn't know how to sell. He's not a merchandiser. He doesn't know how to express his own image. He doesn't know how to create a design of his image... And I do it. I've done it all my career over half a century, and it gets better.” KnowsDoeDoneHalfCareersKnow HowCenturyStupidDesignSellsAverageArchitectureGet BetterArchitectIt Gets BetterHalf A Century Author:Julius Shulman