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Architectural Historian Inspirational Quotes (18)

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Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted.
Sigfried Giedion
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If you look at the entrance halls of the skyscrapers of the 1920s and 1930s, they are very welcoming. They are public spaces with enormous amounts of display and marble and so on. They were havens off the street.
Joseph Rykwert
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What if I jumped out of an airplane with a couple of tanks of helium and one huge, un-inflated balloon? Then, while falling, I release the helium and fill the balloon. How long of a fall would I need in order for the balloon to slow me enough that I could land safely?
Colin Rowe
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Work done by human beings for human beings.
William Lethaby
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Art is not special sauce applied to ordinary cooking it is the cooking itself if it is good.
William Lethaby
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What makes sense is not law, syntax, rules or structure
Aaron Betsky
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Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence.
Aaron Betsky
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The price of property in city centres is making it impossible, particularly in the big cities, for any kind of social mix to take place. It's castrating the whole notion of city life
Joseph Rykwert
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Among the planets of the arts, architecture is the dark side of the moon.
Bruno Zevi
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One of the general considerations about new buildings is that people tend to say that anything new is a monstrosity. And then after a while they either accept them or they go on thinking that they are monstrosities. Reactions vary. This depends to some extent on the quality of the building.
Joseph Rykwert
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Modern building has become so universally conditioned by optimized technology that the possibility of creating significant urban form has become extremely limited.
Kenneth Frampton
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An art school is generated only by the intensity and heat of a common pressure.
William Lethaby
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In a landscape where nothing officially exists (otherwise it would not be 'desert'), absolutely anything becomes thinkable, and may consequently happen.
Reyner Banham
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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.
Kenneth Frampton
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The floating world is the realm of the graphic designer
Aaron Betsky
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From the Berlin tenement reform law of 1897 to H. P. Berlage's plan for Amsterdam South of 1917, designers and theorists in Germany and Holland moved toward the development of a perimeter residential block that would preserve the plastic continuity of the street while opening up the resultant courtyard for use as an enclosed semi-public space.
Kenneth Frampton
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Rather than think about fields producing food, and the rest of the land producing everything else, we need to think about managing integrated, multifunctional, landscapes
Tim Benton
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Even when dead, the hog largely refuses to submit to the machine.
Sigfried Giedion