Martin Filler

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.

Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.

Any set of decisions about design is inevitably influenced by cultural prejudice, no matter how intent an architect might be to avoid it.

We have to base architecture on the environment.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.