{"author":"Martin Filler","author_id":"Martin+Filler","total_quotes":22,"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Martin Filler","tags":["master","early","become "],"id":6577,"author_id":"Martin+Filler"},{"text":"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.","author":"Martin Filler","tags":["view","prejudice","museum "],"id":43744,"author_id":"Martin+Filler"},{"text":"Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the societal terrors posed by globalization, the most thoroughgoing socioeconomic upheaval since the Industrial Revolution, which has set off a pandemic of retrogressive nationalism, regional separatism, and religious extremism.","author":"Martin Filler","tags":["help","globalization "],"id":72844,"author_id":"Martin+Filler"},{"text":"Truly great architecture always transcends its stated function, sometimes in unanticipated ways.","author":"Martin Filler","tags":["great","sometimes","always "],"id":80804,"author_id":"Martin+Filler"},{"text":"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 urbanism.","author":"Martin Filler","tags":["birthday","accomplishment "],"id":94750,"author_id":"Martin+Filler"},{"text":"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.","author":"Martin Filler","tags":["time","design","building "],"id":112450,"author_id":"Martin+Filler"},{"text":"Always beware an unsigned architectural design.","author":"Martin Filler","tags":["beware","always "],"id":116627,"author_id":"Martin+Filler"},{"text":"Cost overruns are not uncommon in architecture, particularly for designs that depart from structural or technological norms, or demand a finer quality of execution than commercial schemes - conditions typical of buildings for cultural institutions. Budgets are exceeded for many reasons, not all of them within an architect's control.","author":"Martin Filler","tags":["quality","control","execution "],"id":124208,"author_id":"Martin+Filler"},{"text":"Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.","author":"Martin Filler","tags":["profession","short-lived "],"id":139317,"author_id":"Martin+Filler"},{"text":"Considering my specialization in architecture, I'm not surprised that the first graphic novel to thoroughly engage, not to say captivate, me is Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor's 'Batman: Death by Design.'.","author":"Martin Filler","tags":["death","design","me "],"id":142906,"author_id":"Martin+Filler"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":22,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}