Source: The New Vichy Syndrome: Why European Intellectuals Surrender to Barbarism
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Modern Architecture Quotes
Source: The Hanging Tree
“Indeed, I am not in favour of the guillotine except prophylactically for modern French architects.”
“We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.”
“Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.”
“Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.”
Source: The Secret History
Source: Broken Homes
“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.”
Source: Death in the Afternoon
“I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.”
“My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.”
“Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.”
“I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.”
“Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.”
Source: Mies van der Rohe: architecture and design in Stuttgart, Barcelona, Brno
“Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.”
“No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.”
Source: The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings
Source: Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1931-1939
Source: Frank Lloyd Wright: writings and buildings
Source: Plan of Chicago
“To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it.”
“The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.”
Source: Frank Stella at 2000