“When Oscar Niemeyer died on December 5, 2012, ten days before his 105t...” — Martin Filler Quote

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.

One of the Age of Enlightenment's most hypnotic images is Ledoux's rendering of his neoclassical theater of 1775 - 1784 in Besancon, surreally reflected in the colossal eye of an unidentified cosmic being.

Any set of decisions about design is inevitably influenced by cultural prejudice, no matter how intent an architect might be to avoid it.

Postmodernism came nowhere close in quality to Modernism at its apogee, not least because that later style wholly lacked the social impetus that animated the designs most emblematic of the Modern Movement.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

My mom won't let me buy high-fashion stuff unless it's TK Maxx or a birthday occasion.

We Kapoors are very family-minded people. For us only family is important and we make it a point to attend each other's birthday parties and special occasions.

We think of the Warped Tour as kind of like everyone's big birthday party.

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.