Joseph Paxton

Architecture English 1803 – 1865 104 quotes

Engineer-architect of Crystal Palace, pioneering prefabrication and glasshouse design.

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"My object was to produce a building that should be light, cheap, and quickly erected, and that should be capable of being taken down and re-erected in another place."

— from Description of the Crystal Palace, 1850

"The key to successful design is to understand the needs of the user and to create solutions that are both functional and inspiring."

— from Attributed

"The Crystal Palace demonstrated that large-scale, complex structures could be built with unprecedented speed and efficiency."

— from Retrospective accounts, 1851