“If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides, modernism rather than classicism has dominated the architecture of totalitarian regimes of both the left and right.” IfsIdeasPoliticalLeftSocialTownsArchitectureRegimesDictatorModernismPolitical SystemsLeft And RightSocial GoodTotalitarian RegimesClassicism Author:Leon Krier
“If we could understand the full significance of a woman's hat we could prophesy her clothes for the next year, the interior decoration of the next two years, the architecture of the next ten years, and we would have a fairly accurate notion of the pressures, political, economic and religious that go to make the shape of an age.” IfsYearsTwoAgePoliticalNextReligiousEconomicShapesTenClothesPressureNotionArchitectureHatsTwo YearsSignificanceAccurateInteriorsNext YearDecoration Author:James Laver
“I think, you know, architecture should not just be something that follows up on events but be a leader of events ... by implementing an architectural action, you actually are making a transformation in the social fabric and in the political fabric. Architecture becomes an instigator.” ThinkingKnowsShouldActionPoliticalSocialLeaderEventsTransformationArchitectureFabricImplementingFollow UpInstigators Author:Lebbeus Woods
“Architecture is a political act, by nature. It has to do with the relationships between people and how they decide to change their conditions of living.” PeoplePoliticalConditionsArchitecture Author:Lebbeus Woods