Urban Planner

🇲🇽Luis Barragán

Art

1902–1988

"I believe that architects should design gardens to be used, as much as the houses they build, to develop a sense of beauty and the taste and inclination toward the fine arts and other spiritual values."

🇫🇷Henri de Saint-Simon

Literature

utopian socialism

1760–1825

"The progress of the human mind, the revolutions which occur in the development of knowledge, give each century its special character."

Rem Koolhaas

Education

deconstructivism

b. 1944

"The city is no longer. We can leave the theatre now."

🇺🇸Lewis Mumford

Philosophy

1895–1990

"Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development."

🇨🇭Le Corbusier

Art

modern architecture

1887–1965

"Vehicular traffic is completely forbidden in the green strips, where tranquility shall reign and the curse of noise shall not penetrate."

"Fanfiction lets you share the kind of story you like with other people who take delight in it, too, and lets you participate in making that sort of story for those people…"

Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Art

Greek Revival architecture

1781–1841

"Indifference to the fine arts comes close to barbarism."

🇫🇮Alvar Aalto

Economics

Neues Bauen

1898–1976

"Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together."

🇨🇦Moshe Safdie

Education

b. 1938

"When I got my first commission after Habitat, for a few weeks I couldn't draw."

🇬🇧Edwin Lutyens

Literature

1869–1944

"If one was told that monkeys had built it, one could only say, 'What wonderful monkeys — they must be shot in case they do it again.'"

🇺🇸Christopher Alexander

Philosophy

1936–2022

"In my life as an architect, I found that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their acceptance of standards that are too low."

🇬🇧Christopher Wren

Science

1632–1723

"A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth."

"The central problem of architecture is space. Space is essential for the individual and for the community. This is equally true for the small space as well as for the large space ."

🇺🇸Frank Lloyd Wright

Education

1867–1959

"I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist’s hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion."

🇺🇸Walter Gropius

Education

Bauhaus

1883–1969

"Impington Village College — only example of Gropius's work in the UK"