Downtown Toronto is a very good place to talk about the neutrality of modernist architecture. I'm sure this kind of box-building was interesting in the Twenties, Thirties and Forties, but I think it's absolutely ridiculous to build like this in 2013. Stefan Sagmeister absolutelyarchitecturebox share on social
Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built. Daniel Libeskind architecturebuildcent Change image and share on social
But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long. Stephen Sprouse architecturefashionharvard Change image and share on social
I am a failed architect, if I'm honest. I got a degree in art history and was about to get another degree, in architecture, but realized I would be terrible at building things because I've got really bad spatial awareness. Hannah Ware architectarchitectureart share on social
Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless. Moshe Safdie architecturefashionjoin Change image and share on social
Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking. Moshe Safdie architectureforwardpart Change image and share on social
It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect. John Ruskin architecturefantasticimperfect Change image and share on social
I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention. Michael Graves architecturegropiusinvention Change image and share on social
Modern architecture needed to be part of an evolutionary, not a revolutionary, process. I. M. Pei architectureevolutionarymodern Change image and share on social
The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed. Bernard Tschumi actarchitecturalarchitecture Change image and share on social
