Modern Architecture Quotes
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Modern Architecture Quotes & Sayings
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A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy.
— Walter Gropius
The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
Modern architecture predominately specializes in designing what are essentially dimly lit caves.
— Steven Magee
It shows a mediocre architect at the top of his game [on the Beetham Tower in Manchester]
— Owen Hatherley
Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.
— Richard Meier
It is not a woman I want - it is all women.
— Henri Barbusse
Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction.
— Alvar Aalto
Modern architecture is not a style, it's an attitude
— Marcel Breuer
I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.
— Roger Waters
Modern architecture only becomes modern with its engagement with the media.
— Beatriz Colomina
Some authors regard morality in the same light as we regard modern architecture. Convenience is the first thing to be looked for.
— Luc De Clapiers
There's no such thing as a bad carbohydrate.
— Don Kardong
Modern man has lost the sense of wonder
about the unknown and he treats it as
an enemy. — Laurens Van Der Post
about the unknown and he treats it as
an enemy. — Laurens Van Der Post
Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.
— Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.
— Tadao Ando
It is through their not being full of themselves that they can afford to seem worn and not appear new and complete.
— Lao-Tzu
New York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought.
— Francis Picabia
In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.
— Nancy Banks-Smith
Centripetal force is the force by which bodies are drawn from all sides, are impelled, or in any way tend, toward some point as to a center.
— Isaac Newton
My people prepare for a battle we cannot win in a war intended for our destruction. Why should I risk their safety to rescue a legend?
— Gillian Bronte Adams
Great design = getting people to do what you want.
— Seth Godin
We're going where no one has gone before. There's no model to follow, nothing to copy. That is what makes this so exciting.
— Richard Branson