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# British architect Quinlan Terry on modernism and the divine origin of the architectural orders
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/ia-ne-dumaiu-chto-my-mozhem-ignorirovat-modernizm/
- Published: 2025-01-26T08:37:31.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T18:47:53.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Architecture, Faith, Observations, People

I don't think we can ignore modernism. But, in general, I wouldn't mind if it had never existed. I think the world would have been a far better place.

So says the British architect Quinlan Terry, one of the present-day apologists for classical architecture.

Another remark of Terry's that I liked: tradition in architecture and its five orders are given by God, and therefore it would be fundamentally wrong to challenge them.

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