From the outset, MoMA followed the Bauhaus's strict prohibition against design that even hinted at the decorative, a prejudice that skewed the pioneering museum's view of Modernism for decades.
Love is too precious to be ashamed of.
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Laurell K. Hamilton
It's not at all hard to understand a person it's only hard to listen without bias.
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Criss Jami
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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Unknown
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
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Unknown
You can't dwell on what might have been...and it's not fair to condemn him for something he hasn't done.
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Wendelin Van Draanen
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.
