Martin Filler best Design Quotes – “Any set of decisions about design is inevitably influenced by cultural prejudice, no matter how intent an architect might be to avoid it.”
Martin Filler best Design Quotes – “Always beware an unsigned architectural design.”
Martin Filler best Design Quotes – “From the outset, MoMA followed the Bauhaus’s strict prohibition against design that even hinted at the decorative, a prejudice that skewed the pioneering museum’s view of Modernism for decades.”
Martin Filler best Design Quotes – “Snohetta promotes a more democratic workplace atmosphere than most other architectural offices. This may merely reflect prevalent employment practices in Scandinavia, but Snohetta places a stronger emphasis on group participation in the design process than typical high-style firms.”
Martin Filler best Birthday Quotes – “When Oscar Niemeyer died on December 5, 2012, ten days before his 105th birthday, he was universally regarded as the very last of the twentieth century’s major architectural masters, an astonishing survivor whose most famous accomplishment, Brasilia, was the climactic episode of utopian High Modern urbanism.”
Martin Filler best Architecture Quotes – “Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.”
Martin Filler best Architecture Quotes – “The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at the end of the twentieth century: whether the new forms made possible by technology are doomed by the low calculations of modern patrons and their architects.”
Martin Filler best Age Quotes – “Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal ‘cursus honorum’ before its practice could be undertaken.”
Martin Filler best Architecture Quotes – “One of the stated goals of the postmodern movement in architecture was a greater sensitivity to the people who live in or use newly designed buildings.”
Martin Filler best Architecture Quotes – “The truth be told, the World Trade Center was neither a very good work of architecture nor a very successful piece of urbanism. Its shortcomings were somewhat mitigated by the westward and southward expansion of the World Financial Center and Battery Park City during the 1980s.”
Martin Filler best Architecture Quotes – “All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right angles that have dominated the building art from time immemorial.”
Martin Filler best Architecture Quotes – “Cost overruns are not uncommon in architecture, particularly for designs that depart from structural or technological norms, or demand a finer quality of execution than commercial schemes – conditions typical of buildings for cultural institutions. Budgets are exceeded for many reasons, not all of them within an architect’s control.”
Martin Filler best Architecture Quotes – “By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years more until Postmodernism was widely accepted and made classical motifs permissible in high-style building design for the first time in decades.”
Martin Filler best Architecture Quotes – “Truly great architecture always transcends its stated function, sometimes in unanticipated ways.”
Martin Filler best Architecture Quotes – “One of the most persistent yet elusive dreams of the Modern Movement in architecture has been prefabrication: industrially made structures that can be assembled at a building site.”