Modernist Architects Quotes

#1. Before World War II, Modernist architects sometimes had to resort to custom fabrication or outright fakery to achieve the machine imagery advocated by the Bauhaus after its initial, Expressionist, phase. Stucco masqueraded as reinforced concrete; rivets were used for decoration.

Martin Filler

#2. I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.

Thom Mayne

#3. Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. There is only one way to learn. It's through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.

Paulo Coelho

#5. Were it not for the melanin in our skin, myoglobin in our muscles and haemoglobin in our blood, we would be the colour of mitochondria. And, if this were so, we would change colour when we exercised or ran out of breath, so that you could tell how energized someone was from his or her colour.

Guy Brown

#6. She was still there inside me now, just as she always was: a life put on hold, a memory I didn't know how to handle.

Banana Yoshimoto

#7. In Jack Nasar's research on American's taste in homes, only one group preferred the modernist house: architects.

Winifred Gallagher

#8. Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that.

Frank Gehry

#9. The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.

Bernard Berenson