Quotes About Modernist Architecture

#1. There are no chords in modernist architecture, only lines - lines that may come to an end, but that achieve no closure

Roger Scruton

#2. 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

#3. Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.

Tadao Ando

#4. Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings ... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.

Leon Krier

#5. The method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself.

Robert Baden-Powell

#6. Sometimes movies that I'm in that I have a leading role don't necessarily get the biggest release, so it's a difficult thing between balancing indies that have uncertain futures and maybe larger films that have guaranteed releases that you have a smaller part in.

Gillian Jacobs

#7. There are in any case many heroes but very few good dragons.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#8. By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years more until Postmodernism was widely accepted and made classical motifs permissible in high-style building design for the first time in decades.

Martin Filler

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

Winifred Gallagher

#10. The greatness of God!

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. Whenever you're making a movie, especially when you're writing, you always have self-doubts.

George Lucas

#12. If I look back I am lost.

George R R Martin

#13. It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.

Jeff Bridges

#14. When you build a memorial, you build it not because the person wanted it, but for the future
for generations who didn't know the man and didn't know the era in which he lived.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#15. It is always easy to flow with the river and to run with the wind! But glory and honour are often not found in easy things!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#16. After 30 novels, release day is still a thrill. It's always a little bittersweet, too.

Luanne Rice

#17. He found, moreover, that the younger and more ignorant his pupils were, the more pleasure he took in teaching.

Hermann Hesse

#18. You're not discontent for wanting to be in a relationship, you're just human.

Cole Ryan

#19. We are told that if you are not occupied with the mind all the time, then you will invite the devil. It is such a heightened misconception that people are going crazy just because of this. An empty mind is not the devil's home but an empty mind is the home of the Buddha.

Anandmurti Gurumaa

#20. 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