Ken Loach Quotes

I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.

Two of my theatres are 1930s and the other five are by Sprague, the greatest Edwardian architect of the lot. They've needed a lot of work doing to them but they were built very well.

London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.

In the '60s when I was a student, there was this campaign to destroy 75 percent of the old buildings in Paris, replacing them with modern architecture. I realized this as a dangerous utopia. This modern vision did not understand the richness of the city. Thankfully, such destruction did not happen.

I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.

In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.

It is for all these buildings, therefore, of all times and styles, that we plead, and call upon those who have to deal with them to put Protection in the place of Restoration, to stave off decay by daily care, to prop a perilous wall or mend a leaky roof by such means as are obviously meant for support or covering, and show no pretence of other art, and otherwise to resist all tampering with either the fabric or ornament of the building as it stands; if it has become inconvenient for its present use, to raise another building rather than alter or enlarge the old one; in fine to treat our ancient buildings as monuments of a bygone art, created by bygone manners, that modern art cannot meddle with without destroying.

Buildings like Penn Station attract our protective instincts not only because of their beauty but because we fear what will come to replace them.

Historically, in the world of architecture, enormous amounts of care and energy have been lavished on things that are almost a cliched idea of culture.

I love the streets of Kolkata, and I admire the old architectural buildings.

I'm really into architecture, I'm a member of the Brutalist Appreciation Society; I'm a member of the Postmodern Society. I write letters to save buildings.

From Brighton to Bradford, from Suffolk to Somerset, I have explored some remarkable buildings and structures that, in different ways, have helped to shed light on the way modern Britain has developed.

I've always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Some look better than the new ones.

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form.

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.

If you go to old houses on Long Island you will see painted Chinese wallpaper, which was big in the 18th century. Throughout history, notable, established families have always tried to link to the 18th century.

Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking.

Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place, and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it.

I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.