“Quebec City is the most European of any city in North America, they speak French all the time. There is a part of town called Old Quebec which is really like being in France. The architecture is just gorgeous, food, shopping. I'd say Quebec city is the most beautiful city in North America I've seen.” AmericaBeautifulSpeakCitiesTownsArchitectureFranceShoppingGorgeousNorth AmericaQuebecBeautiful CitySpeaks French Author:Sebastian Bach
“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
“Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings ... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.” HumansHuman BeingsEvolutionConceptsTownsArchitecturePlanningSomething New Author:Leon Krier
“You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared about architecture, they'd become architects. I've had so many projects that never came off because they had no sponsor, and not because they were utopian. I just want to build a town that's normal.” IfsWantNeedsNormalProjectsIntellectualTownsArchitectureMaking MoneyArchitectUtopianDevelopersSponsors Author:Leon Krier
“Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being overlooked, and saying to the forgetful public, Here I am! Or perhaps they are rival lightning rods, saying to the emanations of divine grace, "Please strike here!” HandsSeemsChurchGraceModernDivinePleaseSurvivalTownsRaisedVariousStrikesArchitectureLightningTowersRivalsHere I AmOverlookedDivine GraceForgetfulFrills Author:George Santayana
“I think the future of architecture does not lie so much in continuing to fill up the landscape, as in bringing back life and order to our cities and towns.” ThinkingDoeLyingOrderCitiesTownsArchitectureLandscapeContinuingCities And Towns Author:Gottfried Bohm
“I love walking along Leiths waterfront and wandering around some of New Towns beautiful streets and squares, with their gorgeous Georgian architecture.” BeautifulStreetsWalkingTownsArchitectureWanderSquaresGorgeousWandering AroundGeorgians Author:Dexter Fletcher
“One of the things that's amazing about reading the private writing of these folks is that they enthusiastically describe things which we have now seen, and which are widely regarded as unappealing. They'll write, "It's going to be beautiful, we're going to have a town of 1,000 stone buildings that are all identical." And we as modern readers think, we've seen that; that's bad Soviet architecture or a public housing project. Nobody fantasizes about living there.” ThinkingWritingBeautifulReadingModernBuildingReaderProjectsStonesTownsFolksArchitectureSovietHousingIdenticalPublic Housing Author:Christine Jennings
“Just growing up in Columbus, which is such a special place, small town with a Fortune 500 company's headquarters, the extraordinary modern architecture. The experiences that I've had growing up in that very unique hometown has shaped me and always will shape me.” CompanyGrowing UpGrowingModernSpecialShapesUniqueTownsFortuneExtraordinaryArchitectureSmall TownHometownColumbusSpecial PlacesHeadquartersModern Architecture Author:Mike Pence
“Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water's edge.” IfsHouseWaterModernChangedTownsEdgesBoringArchitectureAdmireShipsTallMuseumsOperaEightyDowntownHarbourModern ArchitectureFerryOpera HouseOsloTall Ships Author:Jo Nesbo
“...trees to cool the towns in the boiling summer, trees to hold back the winter winds. There were so many things a tree could do: add color, provide shade, drop fruit, or become a children's playground, a whole sky universe to climb and hang from; an architecture of food and pleasure, that was a tree. But most of all the trees would distill an icy air for the lungs, and a gentle rustling for the ear when you lay nights in your snowy bed and were gentled to sleep by the sound.” ChildrenWholeNightUniverseSoundSleepPleasureAirTreeSkyColorWindBedSummerEarsTownsLaysAddFruitWinterArchitectureGentleClimbsShadeLungsPlaygroundsIcyBoilingSnowy Book:The Martian Chronicles Source: The Martian Chronicles
“Scientists like myself merely use their gifts to show up that which already exists, and we look small compared to the artists who create works of beauty out of themselves. If a good fairy came and offered me back my youth, asking me which gifts I would rather have, those to make visible a thing which exists but which no man has ever seen before, or the genius needed to create, in a style of architecture never imagined before, the great Town Hall in which we are dining tonight, I might be tempted to choose the latter.” IfsMenLooksUseShowsMightScienceArtistExistenceStyleYouthGeniusNeededScientistTownsAskingArchitectureTemptationVisibleFairyLatterTonightHallsTemptedDining Author:Max Perutz