FAMOUS ARCHITECT DICTUMS

WE ARE CALLED TO BE ARCHITECTS OF THE FUTURE, NOT ITS

ARCHITECTURE MUST MEET 3 REQUIREMENTS:

VICTIMS.

FORM EVER FOLLOWS FUNCTION.

-RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER

-LOUIS HENRY SULLIVAN

DOING MORE WITH LESS.
OUR ARCHITECTURE REFLECTS TRULY AS A MIRROR.

-RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER

-LOUIS HENRI SULLIVAN

"WHEN I AM WORKING ON A PROBLEM, I NEVER THINK ABOUT
"THE ARCHITECT WHO COMBINES IN HIS BEING THE POWERS

BEAUTY... BUT WHEN I HAVE FINISHED, IF THE SOLUTION IS

OF VISION, OF IMAGINATION, OF INTELLECT, OF SYMPATHY

NOT BEAUTIFUL, I KNOW IT IS WRONG"

WITH HUMAN NEED AND THE POWER TO INTERPRET THEM IN A

-BUCKMINSTER FULLER

LANGUAGE VERNACULAR AND TIME--- IS HE WHO SHALL

CREATE POEMS IN STONE."

"MAKE BIG PLANS; AIM HIGH IN HOPE AND WORK,

- LOUIS SULLIVAN

REMEMBERING THAT A NOBLE, LOGICAL DIAGRAM ONCE

RECORDED WILL NOT DIE"

FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION

-DANIEL BURNHAM

- LOUIS SULLIVAN
"MAKE NO LITTLE PLANS; THEY HAVE NO MAGIC TO STIR MEN'S
"FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION- THAT HAS BEEN

BLOOD"

MISUNDERSTOOD. FORM AND FUNCTION SHOULD BE ONE,

-DANIEL BURNHAM

JOINED IN A SPIRITUAL UNION"

-FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

FORM DOES NOT NECESSARILY FOLLOW FUNCTION ANTONIO GAUDI

ARCHITECTURE IS ORGANIC
- FRANK LLYOD WRIGHT

THOSE WHO LOOK FOR THE LAWS OF NATURE AS A SUPPORT

FOR THEIR NEW WORKS COLLABORATE WITH THE CREATOR.

THE THING ALWAYS HAPPENS THAT YOU REALLY BELIEVE IN;

-ANONIO GAUDI

AND THE BELIEF IN A THING MAKES IT HAPPEN.

-FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

"ARCHITECTURE IS THE REACHING OUT FOR THE TRUTH"

-LOUIS KAHN

A DOCTOR CAN BURY HIS MISTAKES BUT AN ARCHITECT CAN

ONLY ADVISE HIS CLIENT TO PLANT VINES.

A HOUSE IS A HOUSE

-FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

- LOUIS KAHN

THE GOOD BUILDING IS NOT ONE THAT HURTS THE

A BRIDGE IS LIKE A HOUSE

LANDSCAPE, BUT ONE WHICH MAKES THE LANDSCAPE MORE

- ROBERT MAILLART

BEAUTIFUL THAN IT WAS BEFORE THE BUILDING WAS BUILT.

-FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

FUNCTION INFLUENCE BUT DOES NOT DICTATE FORM

- EERO SAARINEN

"ARCHITECTURE IS THE TRIUMPH OF HUMAN IMAGINATION

OVER MATERIALS, METHODS, AND MEN, TO PUT MAN INTO

ARCHITECTURAL-FORM EQUALS SOCIAL-FORM

POSSESSION OF HIS OWN EARTH"

-ELIEL SAARINEN

-FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

"ALL ARCHITECTS WANT TO LIVE BEYOND THEIR DEATHS"
AN ARCHITECTS MOST USEFUL TOOLS ARE AN ERASER AT

-PHILIP JOHNSON

THE DRAFTING BOARD, AND A WRECKING BAR AT THE SITE.

-FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

GOD IS IN THE DETAILS

-LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

"EVERY GREAT ARCHITECT IS- NECESSARILY - A GREAT POET.

HE MUST BE A GREAT ORIGINAL INTERPRETER OF HIS TIME,

ARCHITECTURE STARTS WHEN YOU CAREFULLY PUT TWO

HIS DAY, HIS AGE"

BRICKS TOGETHER. THERE IT BEGINS.

-FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

-LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

ALL FINE ARCHITECTURAL VALUES ARE HUMAN VALES, ELSE

"ARCHITECTURE IS THE WILL OF AN EPOCH TRANSLATED INTO

NOT VALUABLE.

SPACE"

-FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

-LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

I KNOW THE PRICE OF SUCCESS: DEDICATION, HARD WORK

"ARCHITECTURE STARTS WHEN YOU CAREFULLY PUT TWO

AND AN UNREMITTING DEVOTION TO THE THINGS YOU WANT

BRICKS TOGETHER. THERE IT BEGINS"

TO SEE HAPPEN.

-LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

-FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

LESS IS MORE.

A MODERN, HARMONIC AND LIVELY ARCHITECTURE IS THE

"IT IS NOT AN INDIVIDUAL ACT, ARCHITECTURE. YOU HAVE TO

"THE PURPOSE OF ARCHITECTURE IS TO SHELTER AND

-LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

VISIBLE SIGN OF AN AUTHENTIC DEMOCRACY.

CONSIDER YOUR CLIENT. ONLY OUT OF THAT CAN YOU

ENHANCE MAN'S LIFE ON EARTH AND TO FULFILL HIS BELIEF IN

-WALTER GROPIUS

PRODUCE GREAT ARCHITECTURE. YOU CANNOT WORK IN THE

THE NOBILITY OF HIS EXISTENCE"

ABSTRACT"

-EERO SAARINEN

"LESS IS A BORE"
-ROBERT VENTURI

A HARMONIOUS DESIGN REQUIRES THAT NOTHING BE ADDED

-IOH MING PEI

OR TAKEN AWAY.
MORE IS MORE.

MARCUS VITRUVIUS POLLIO

-ROBERT VENTURI
ARCHITECTURE IS A SCIENCE ARISING OUT OF MANY OTHER

"TO ME, THE DRAWN LANGUAGE IS A VERY REVEALING

AN IMPORTANT WORK OF ARCHITECTURE WILL CREATE

LANGUAGE, ONE CAN SEE IN A FEW LINES WHETHER A MAN IS

POLEMICS.

REALLY AN ARCHITECT"

-RICHARD MEIER

-EERO SAARINEN

FORMS ACCOMMODATES FUNCTION

SCIENCES, AND ADORNED WITH MUCH AND VARIED LEARNING;

-ROBERT VENTURI

BY THE HELP OF WHICH A JUDGMENT IS FORMED OF THOSE

MY PASSION AND GREAT ENJOYMENT FOR ARCHITECTURE,

NOTHING IS AS DANGEROUS IN ARCHITECTURE AS DEALING

WORKS WHICH ARE THE RESULT OF OTHER ARTS.

AND THE REASON THE OLDER I GET THE MORE I ENJOY IT, IS

WITH SEPARATED PROBLEMS. IF WE SPLIT LIFE INTO

- MARCUS VITRUVIUS POLLIO

BECAUSE I BELIEVE WE ARCHITECTS CAN EFFECT THE

SEPARATED PROBLEMS WE SPLIT THE POSSIBILITIES TO MAKE

QUALITY OF LIFE OF THE PEOPLE.

GOOD BUILDING ART.

-RICHARD ROGERS

-ALVAR AALTO

"TAKE CARE OF THE LUXURIES

AND THE NECESSITIES WILL TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES"
-LE CORBUSIER

STRENGTH, BEAUTY, AND UNITY

-MARCUS VITRUVIUS POLLIO

I THINK MY BEST SKILL AS AN ARCHITECT IS THE

ARCHITECTURE HAS RECORDED THE GREAT IDEAS OF THE

AND LEAVES LESS ROOM FOR LIES"

ALL ARCHITECTURE IS SHELTER, ALL GREAT ARCHITECTURE

ACHIEVEMENT OF HAND-TO-EYE COORDINATION. I AM ABLE TO

HUMAN RACE. NOT ONLY EVERY RELIGIOUS SYMBOL, BUT

-LE CORBUSIER

IS THE DESIGN OF SPACE THAT CONTAINS, CUDDLES, EXALTS,

TRANSFER A SKETCH INTO A MODEL INTO THE BUILDING.

EVERY HUMAN THOUGHT HAS ITS PAGE IN THAT VAST BOOK.

OR STIMULATES THE PERSONS IN THAT SPACE.

-FRANK GEHRY

-VICTOR HUGO

"I PREFER DRAWING TO TALKING. DRAWING IS FASTER,

"SPACE AND LIGHT AND ORDER. THOSE ARE THE THINGS THAT

-PHILIP JOHNSON
ARCHITECTURE SHOULD SPEAK OF ITS TIME AND PLACE, BUT

ARCHITECTURE IS A ART WHEN ONE CONSCIOUSLY OR

TO SLEEP"

ARCHITECTURE IS THE ART OF HOW TO WASTE SPACE.

YEARN FOR TIMELESSNESS.

UNCONSCIOUSLY CREATES AESTHETIC EMOTION IN THE

-LE CORBUSIER

-PHILIP JOHNSON

-FRANK GEHRY

ATMOSPHERE AND WHEN THIS ENVIRONMENT PRODUCES

"THE HOME SHOULD BE THE TREASURE CHEST OF LIVING"

ALL ARCHITECTS WANT TO LIVE BEYOND THEIR DEATHS.

IN ANY ARCHITECTURE, THERE IS AN EQUITY BETWEEN THE

LE CORBUSIER

-PHILIP JOHNSON

PRAGMATIC FUNCTION AND THE SYMBOLIC FUNCTION.

"ARCHITECTURE IS THE LEARNED GAME, CORRECT AND

ARCHITECTS TODAY TEND TO DEPRECIATE THEMSELVES, TO

MAGNIFICANT, OF FORMS ASSEMBLED IN THE LIGHT"

REGARD THEMSELVES AS NO MORE THAN JUST ORDINARY

ESCAPE FROM THE ARCHITECTURE GHETTO IS ONE OF THE

OVERPOWERED BY RATIONAL ANALYSIS.

-LE CORBUSIER

CITIZENS WITHOUT THE POWER TO REFORM THE FUTURE.

MAJOR DRIVERS AND HAS BEEN FROM THE VERY BEGINNING.

-LUIS BARRAGAN

-KENZO TANGE

-REM KOOLHAAS

MODERN ARCHITECTURE NEED NOT TO BE WESTERN

NOT MANY ARCHITECTS HAVE THE LUXURY TO REJECT

COMMON WITH ART AND IS ARCHITECTURE NOT TO BE

- KENZO TANGE

SIGNIFICANT THINGS.

INCLUDED IN THE ARTS? ONLY A VERY SMALL PART OF

-REM KOOLHAAS

ARCHITECTURE BELONGS TO ART: THE TOMB AND THE

MEN NEED JUST AS MUCH AS THEY NEED BREAD OR A PLACE

WELL BEING.

-MICHAEL GRAVES

DOES IT FOLLOW THAT THE HOUSE HAS NOTHING IN

"THE HOUSE IS A MACHINE FOR LIVING IN"

- LE CORBUSIER
ARCHITECTURE IS THE LEARNED GAME, CORRECT AND

THE CITY MUST BE SUBJECT TO GROWTH, DECAY AND

TO CREATE ARCHITECTURE IS TO PUT IN ORDER. PUT WHAT

MONUMENT. EVERYTHING ELSE THAT FULFILS A FUNCTION IS

RENEWAL

PEOPLE CAN INHABIT ANYTHING. AND THEY CAN BE

TO BE EXCLUDED FROM THE DOMAIN OF ART.

-KENZO TANGE

MISERABLE IN ANYTHING AND ECSTATIC IN ANYTHING. MORE

-ADOLF LOOS

MAGNIFICENT, OF FORMS ASSEMBLED IN THE LIGHT.

-LE CORBUSIER

AND MORE I THINK THAT ARCHITECTURE HAS NOTHING TO DO

I BELIEVE THAT THE WAY PEOPLE LIVE CAN BE DIRECTED A

WITH IT. OF COURSE, THATS BOTH LIBERATING AND

ARCHITECTURE AROUSES SENTIMENTS IN MAN. THE

LITTLE BY ARCHITECTURE.

ALARMING.

ARCHITECTS TASK THEREFORE, IS TO MAKE THOSE

-TADAO ANDO

-REM KOOLHAAS

SENTIMENTS MORE PRECISE.

I WOULD LIKE MY ARCHITECTURE TO INSPIRE PEOPLE TO USE

ANY ARCHITECTURAL PROJECT WE DO TAKES AT LEAST

THEIR OWN RESOURCES, TO MOVE INTO THE FUTURE.

FOUR OR FIVE YEARS, SO INCREASINGLY THERE IS A

EACH NEW SITUATION REQUIRES A NEW ARCHITECTURE.

-TADAO ANDO

DISCREPANCY BETWEEN THE ACCELERATION OF CULTURE

-JEAN NOUVEL

IN ORDER? FUNCTION AND OBJECTS.

-LE CORBUSIER
ITS VERY ATMOSPHERIC. ITS NOT A BUILDING THAT IS A

IT IS ESSENTIAL TO AN ARCHITECT TO KNOW HOW TO SEE: I

MEAN, TO SEE IN SUCH A WAY THAT THE VISION IS NOT

CUBE WITHIN A CUBE

- LE CORBUSIER

-LUIS BARRAGAN

-ADOLF LOOS

SEVERE STATEMENT IN THE SKYLINE. WE NEED THE HEIGHT;

AND THE CONTINUING SLOWNESS OF ARCHITECTURE.

OTHERWISE, THE BUILDING ALMOST DISAPPEARS BECAUSE IT

I HOPE THAT AMERICA AS A WHOLE, AND ESPECIALLY ITS

IS SO SLENDER.

ARCHITECTS, WILL BECOME MORE SERIOUSLY INVOLVED IN

-SANTIAGO CALATRAVA

PRODUCING A NEW ARCHITECTURAL CULTURE THAT WOULD

ALWAYS DESIGN A THING BY CONSIDERING IT IN ITS NEXT

BRING THE NATION TO THE APEX WHERE IT HAS STOOD

LARGER CONTEXT A CHAIR IN A ROOM, A ROOM IN A HOUSE,

ART AND ARCHITECTURE, THE NEW UNITY

BEFORE AND LEAD THE WORLD.

A HOUSE IN AN ENVIRONMENT, AN ENVIRONMENT IN A CITY

IT IS INSUFFICIENT FOR ARCHITECTURE TODAY TO DIRECTLY

- WALTER GROPIUS

-TADAO ANDO

PLAN.

IMPLEMENT AN EXISTING BUILDING TYPOLOGY; IT INSTEAD

-ELIEL SAARINEN

REQUIRES ARCHITECTS TO CAREFULLY EXAMINE THE WHOLE

-REM KOOLHAAS

TO PROVIDE MEANINGFUL ARCHITECTURE IS NOT TO

PARODY HISTORY BUT TO ARTICULATE IT.
-DANIEL LIBESKIND

ARCHITECTURE BEGINS WHERE ENGINEERING ENDS.

THAT ABSTRACT FORMS, DERIVED FROM TECHNOLOGY AND

-WALTER GROPIUS

FUNCTION, CAN BE USED SENSITIVELY IN EVERYDAY

ARCHITECTURAL-FORM EQUALS SOCIAL-FORM.

TYPOLOGIES.

COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS, LARGE URBAN SCHEMES, AND

-ELIEL SAARINEN

-ZAHA HADID

A MODERN, HARMONIC AND LIVELY ARCHITECTURE IS THE

MONUMENTS.

VISIBLE SIGN OF AN AUTHENTIC DEMOCRACY.

-IOH MING PEI

-WALTER GROPIUS

AREA WITH NEW INTERVENTIONS AND PROGRAMMATIC

FUNCTION INFLUENCE BUT DOES NOT DICTATE FORM

- EERO SAARINEN