“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
“A total work of art is only possible in the context of the whole of society. Everyone will be a necessary co-creator of a social architecture, and, so long as anyone cannot participate, the ideal form of democracy has not been reached. Whether people are artists, assemblers of machines or nurses, it is a matter of participating in the whole.” LongArtMatterWholeFormArtistSocialDemocracyArt IsIdealsMachinesCreatorArchitectureWorks Of ArtNurseParticipatingDemocracies Have Author:Joseph Beuys
“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
“Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a social manifestation, the critical eye becomes clairvoyant.” WellsLooksArtDoneEyeSocialCriticalArchitectureManifestationClairvoyant Author:Louis Sullivan
“The perennial architectural debate has always been, and will continue to be, about art versus use, visions versus pragmatism, aesthetics versus social responsibility. In the end, these unavoidable conflicts provide architecture's essential and productive tensions; the tragedy is that so little of it rises above the level imposed by compromise, and that this is the only work most of us see and know.” KnowsLittlesArtEndsUseSocialLevelsResponsibilityVisionConflictEssentialsTragedyArchitectureDebateCompromiseTensionProductiveSocial ResponsibilityVersusRise AboveAestheticsPragmatism Book:On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change Source: On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change
“I think architecture is one of the predominant orderings of social space. It can construct and contain our experiences. It defines our days and nights. It literally puts us in our place.” ThinkingNightSocialSpaceArchitectureConstructsDay And Night Author:Barbara Kruger
“We have no sociology of architecture. Architects are unaccustomed to social analysis and mistrust it; sociologists have fatter fish to fry.” SocialFishesArchitectureAnalysisArchitectSociologyMistrustSociologists Author:Denise Scott Brown
“Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.” OpportunitySocialChallengesEnvironmentUniqueUniversityArchitectureCampusPrincetonOpportunities And ChallengesPrinceton University Author:Steven Holl
“I found myself starting architecture with a deep social, Jewish, liberal conscience, and the belief that architecture is for the people. It was a do-gooder base; I was born and raised that way. I was for blacks, whites, Italians, Poles, whatever.” PeopleWayFoundBeliefSocialBornConscienceRaisedStartingArchitectureBorn And Raised Author:Frank Gehry