Snohetta promotes a more democratic workplace atmosphere than most other architectural offices. This may merely reflect prevalent employment practices in Scandinavia, but Snohetta places a stronger emphasis on group participation in the design process than typical high-style firms.
Winning is something, but participation is everything.
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Debasish Mridha
If You Respect Their Preparation, You never Drop the Baton
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Vineet Raj Kapoor
[F]reedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that "Oh, I don't get involved in politics, " as if that makes you somehow cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder...
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Bill Maher
Don’t be timid. You’re a writer, use your role, test it, make something of it. These are decisive times, everything is turning upside down. Participate, be present. And begin with the scum in your area, put their backs to the wall.
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Elena Ferrante
New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them?
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H.G. Wells
More Quotes By Martin Filler
When Oscar Niemeyer died on December 5, 2012, ten days before his 105th birthday, he was universally regarded as the very last of the twentieth century's major architectural masters, an astonishing survivor whose most famous accomplishment, Brasilia, was the climactic episode of utopian High Modern...
Before the professionalization of architecture in the nineteenth century, it was standard for an aspiring mason or carpenter to begin his apprenticeship at fourteen and to become a master builder by his early twenties.
Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.
One of the most persistent yet elusive dreams of the Modern Movement in architecture has been prefabrication: industrially made structures that can be assembled at a building site.
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.
