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  • Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite.

    Block   July   Grace  
    Charles Jencks (2012). “The Story of Post-Modernism: Five Decades of the Ironic, Iconic and Critical in Architecture”, p.1, John Wiley & Sons
  • All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

    Badass   Bad Ass   Space  
  • Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

    Art   Badass   Bad Ass  
    What We Live By (1932) pt. 2, ch. 12
  • Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

    Badass   Moving   Heart  
    Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.
  • Each new situation requires a new architecture.

  • Architecture begins where engineering ends.

    Speech at Harvard Department of Architecture. "Architects on Architecture". Book by Paul Heyer, 1966.
  • A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

    "Secrets behind the world's great buildings" by Jonathan Glancey, www.cnn.com. October 26, 2016.
  • Landscaping is the great cardinal sin of modern architecture. It's not your garden, it's not a park - it's a formless patch of grass, shrubbery and the occasional tree that exists purely to stop the original developer's plans from looking like a howling concrete wilderness.

    Garden   Tree   Parks  
    Ben Aaronovitch (2013). “Broken Homes”, p.144, Hachette UK
  • When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.

    Unique   Japan   Culture  
  • Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

    Beauty   God   Daughter  
    'The Holy State and the Profane State' (1642) bk. 3 'Of Building'
  • A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy.

    "Words of Art: Inspiring Quotes from the Masters". Book published by Adams Media, 2013.
  • Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.

    Badass   Real   Bad Ass  
    Frank Stella, Bonnie Clearwater (2000). “Frank Stella at 2000”, Museum of Contemporary Art
  • All architecture is great architecture after sunset.

  • I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

    Art   Badass   Bad Ass  
  • Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

    Eveline Perroud, Le Corbusier (2007). “Opus 1, Le Corbusier”
  • To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

    Le Corbusier (1991). “Precisions on the present state of architecture and city planning: with an American prologue, a Brazilian corollary followed by The temperature of Paris and The atmosphere of Moscow”, The MIT Press
  • Many of the received models of modern architecture and planning owe their ultimate origin to the building code and public health reform movements of the second half of the 19th century.

    Reform   Movement   Half  
  • Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

    Badass   Bad Ass   Space  
    Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Alexander von Vegesack, Matthias Kries, Vitra Design Museum (1998). “Mies van der Rohe: architecture and design in Stuttgart, Barcelona, Brno”, Skira - Berenice
  • Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction.

    Mean   Immature   Doe  
  • Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

    Toronto Star Weekly 4 Mar. 1922, in William White By-line: Ernest Hemingway (1967) p. 18 See also F. Scott Fitzgerald (6.20)
  • Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

  • Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

    Funny   Music   Dance  
  • Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.

    Hope   Badass   Bad Ass  
  • No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

    John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.195, University of Virginia Press
  • I began to see new buildings, too, which were connected by futuristic walkways lit from beneath. Long, cool perspectives of modern architecture, rising phosphorescent and eerie from the rubble.

    Donna Tartt (2011). “The Secret History”, p.523, Vintage
  • Modern architecture is not a style, it's an attitude

  • Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

    Two   Together   Bricks  
  • A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People ask why we have no typical architecture of the modern world, like impressionism in painting. Surely it is obviously because we have not enough dogmas; we cannot bear to see anything in the sky that is solid and enduring, anything in the sky that does not change like the clouds of the sky.

    Clouds   Sky   People  
  • All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

  • Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

    Commercial Club of Chicago, Daniel Hudson Burnham, Edward Herbert Bennett (1970). “Plan of Chicago”, Da Capo Pr
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