Scottish Architect Quotes

Robert Adam

Charles Rennie Mackintosh

William Chambers (architect)

Ian McHarg

There is hope in honest error; none in the icy perfections of the mere stylist

Charles Rennie Mackintosh

In the constructive part of architecture, the ancients were no great proficients.

William Chambers (architect)

We are the bullies of the earth: strong, foul, coarse, greedy, careless, indifferent to others, laying waste as we proceed, leaving wounds, welts, lesions, suppurations on the earth body, increasingly engulfed by our own ordure and, finally, abysmally ignorant of the way the world works, crowing our superiority over all life.

Ethnology, based merely on Language and Physiology, is like Geology based only on Mineralogy and Chemistry.

James Fergusson (architect)

The massive entablature, the ponderous compartment ceiling, the tabernacle frame, almost the only form of ornament formerly known in this country, are now universally exploded, and in their place we have adopted a beautiful variety of light mouldings, gracefully formed, delicately enriched, and arranged with propriety and skill.