23 Quotes by Robin Evans

An architecture devoted to its freezing and display could only be its mausoleum.

It is a conservation of momentum: what is diminished by time is augmented by the pencil. As the idea fades, the agitation around it has to increase to keep it alive; and as the scope of the architectural profession also reduces, the designer’s visible impact on the object increases, as if to recall lost powers.

I am exalted at the thought that I see through his eyes as well as mine.

Is Ronchamp reminiscent of the Ark left stranded on Ararat, or like ‘bits of broken china thrown on top of the hill’? Is the roof like a bird’s wing, or does the whole edifice look like a decoy? Is it an alighting dove or a sitting duck? Good taste bids us to suppress the latter in favour of the former, although the latter is as easy to see.

The Modular, good fable that it is, tells a story about a hidden regulatory agency, but it is not that agency itself.