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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 58 quotes by Martin Filler Martin Myles Filler (September 17, 1948) is a prominent American architecture critic. Born in Colorado Springs, CO, Filler received a BA in Art History from Columbia College in 1970 and an MA from Columbia University's Department of Art History and Archaeology in 1972. He is best known for his long essays on modern architecture that have appeared in The New York Review of Books since 1985, and which served as the basis for his 2007 book Makers... Read full biography of Martin Filler → 1 2 3 4 5 Ctrl → Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the societal terrors posed by globalization, the most... → 0 The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us... → 0 What a museum chooses to exhibit is sometimes less important than how such decisions are made and what values inform them. To have the crucial role... → 0 Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of the Bauhaus... → 0 The magnificent lobby of the Chrysler Building - faced with rare marbles, aglitter with decorative metalwork, and surmounted by a ceiling painted... → 0 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... → 0 The Frankfurt Museum of Decorative Arts is a handsome building, which takes its cues from the riverside Biedermeier villa next to it, and it is... → 0 Architecture traditionally has been the slowest of art forms. It was not unusual for great cathedrals to take centuries to complete, with stylistic... → 0 Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers's Centre Georges Pompidou of 1971-1977 - the true prototype of the modern museum as popular architectural... → 0 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... → 0 Although prefabrication has a long history - the ancient Romans shipped pre-cut stone columns, pediments, and other architectural elements to their... → 0 As with many other folk beliefs, 'feng-shui' undoubtedly incorporates some scientifically correct observation or received wisdom based on... → 0 From the outset, MoMA followed the Bauhaus's strict prohibition against design that even hinted at the decorative, a prejudice that skewed the... → 0 1 2 3 4 5 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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