Quotes by Martin Filler

Martin Filler

A turning point in the public’s perception of the building art came with the publication of Frank Lloyd Wright’s ‘An Autobiography’ of 1932, a picaresque narrative that captivated many who hadn’t the slightest inkling of what architects actually did.

Art

Narrative

Perception

After Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society, the belief in decent housing as a political right or social obligation was supplanted in the U.S. by the notion that suitable shelter should be an act of charity.

Charity

Political

Shelter

All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right angles that have dominated the building art from time immemorial.

Art

Lines

Order

Although prefabrication has a long history – the ancient Romans shipped pre-cut stone columns, pediments, and other architectural elements to their colonies in North Africa, where the numbered parts were reassembled into temples – the idea took on a new impetus with the technological advances of the Industrial Revolution.

Cutting

Ideas

Long

Always beware an unsigned architectural design.

Architectural Design

Design

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

Decision

Design

Prejudice

Architectural kitsch is most common in the commercial pop vernacular – typified by the Big Duck of 1931 in Flanders, New York, a Long Island roadside poultry stand resembling a duck, which Venturi and Scott Brown made a cult object through their writings.

Islands

New York

Writing

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

Architecture

Hearted

Weak

Architecture traditionally has been the slowest of art forms. It was not unusual for great cathedrals to take centuries to complete, with stylistic changes from Romanesque to Gothic or Renaissance to Baroque as common as the addition of chapels or spires. But because the function remained the same, the form could be flexible and its growth organic.

Art

Growth

Renaissance

Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal ‘cursus honorum’ before its practice could be undertaken.

Architecture

Lasts

Practice

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Architectural Design

Architecture

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Artist

Avant Garde

Belief

Benefits

Building

Ceilings

Century

Challenges

Character

Charity

Cities

Construction Workers

Cost

Creative

Cutting

Decision

Defining

Design

Design Process

Doe

Dream

Engineering

Enlightenment

Expansion

Eye

Feng Shui

Firsts

Force Of Will

Generations

Goal

Government

Growth

Hearted

House

Ideas

Imagination

Income

Integrity

Islands

Jobs

Knowing

Lasts

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Lines

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Quotes by Martin Filler

Martin Filler

A turning point in the public’s perception of the building art came with the publication of Frank Lloyd Wright’s ‘An Autobiography’ of 1932, a picaresque narrative that captivated many who hadn’t the slightest inkling of what architects actually did.

After Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society, the belief in decent housing as a political right or social obligation was supplanted in the U.S. by the notion that suitable shelter should be an act of charity.

All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right angles that have dominated the building art from time immemorial.

Always beware an unsigned architectural design.

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

Architectural kitsch is most common in the commercial pop vernacular – typified by the Big Duck of 1931 in Flanders, New York, a Long Island roadside poultry stand resembling a duck, which Venturi and Scott Brown made a cult object through their writings.

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

Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal ‘cursus honorum’ before its practice could be undertaken.

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