The architect quoted, Iofan, was the winner of the competition for the Palace of the Soviets of 1932, an impressive work but never built, 400 metres in height surmounted by a 100-metre statute of Lenin.
In a New York Times article written by Ruth La Perla last week on this topic, the founder of Digital Brand Architects was quoted saying, "We use stylists, we do color correction and Photoshopping, we scout locations every day.
Still unconvinced in 1924, American Architect approvingly quoted an English journal, The Builder, repeating its statement that "there exist two principal ways of destroying buildings, both equally efficient: a) dynamite, b) ivy".
Nearly nine months after a stray fireworks rocket set alight a 520-foot tower during Lunar New Year celebrations, destroying part of downtown Beijing's massive new state television headquarters, the project's chief architect was quoted as saying that reconstruction of the fire-gutted building would begin soon and should be finished next year.
The happiest client is the one whose decorator or architect quotes the price that he has paid, along with the markup to the client.
A local newspaper quoted an architect who described it as a "Darth Vaderish Death Star".
My guide, William J. Maloney, the genial project director, quoted the architect as saying to the museum trustees something like this: "Raise a lot of money for me, I'll give you good architecture.
They quoted Harley Sherlock, architect and author, one of the first of the new kids on the block: We wanted to be in the centre of things, we wanted to be where everybody was, we wanted to be part of London; we wanted to be where working people of all sorts were, and all this we found in Canonbury.
The architect Daniel Burnham is famously quoted in Erik Larson's book, The Devil in The White City, as saying, "Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood," before he erected a neo-classical "white city," along a desolate stretch of lakeshore ahead of the Chicago World's Fair in 1893.
