ADOLF LOOS

“Ornament is a crime and all ornamentation must be rejected”

“Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of
architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfills a function is to be excluded from the domain of art”

ALVAR AALTO
“Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problem we split the possibilities to
make good building art.”

ANTONIO GAUDI
“Form does not necessarily follow function”

AUGUSTE PERRET
“Truth is indispensable to Architecture & architectural lie concepts.”

BENJAMIN H. LATROBE
“A building is the combination of different geometric figures.”

BUCKMINSTER FULLER
“We called architects of the future not its victims.”

“Starting with holes.”

DANIEL BURNHAM
“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood.”
“Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.”

EDUARDO SOUTO DE MOURA

“Drawing architecture is a schizoid act: it involves reducing the world into a piece of paper.”

EERO SAARINEN
“Function influence but does not dictate form.”

ELIEL SAARINEN
“Beauty grows from necessity not from repetition of formulas.”
“Form equals social-form.”

ERICH MENDELSOHN
“Architecture depends on the sensuous seizure by means to touch and sight.”
“Architecture seizures upon space, encompasses space and is space itself.”

FRANK GEHRY
“Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.”
“Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses, the client made me do this. The city made me do this. Oh, the budget. I
don’t believe that anymore.

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

“An idea is salvation by imagination.”
“Think simple as my old master used to say – meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.”
“The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be
impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the day of your life.”
“Architecture is organic.”
“Every great architect is necessarily – a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.”
“Form follows function – that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.”

JEAN NOUVEL
“I think architecture has to be a gift.”
“Each new situation requires a new architecture.”

JOHN RUSKIN
“It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have
insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.”
“It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.”

KENZO TANGE
“Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the
future.”
“The city must be subject to growth, decay and renewal.”
 “Modern Architecture not need to be Western.”

LE CORBUSIER (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) [The crow like one]

“The house is a machine for living in.”
“Architecture or Revolution.”
“The exterior of the building is the result of the interior.”

LOUIS KAHN
“Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.”
“Every time a student walks past and really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he
does have that mind, does have that soul.”
“A house is a house.”

LOUIS SULLIVAN
“Form follows function.”

LUCIO COSTA
“Each one sees whatever he wishes to see.”
“I am neither a capitalist nor a socialist, I am not a religious or an atheist.”

LUDWIG MIES VAN DE ROHE

“Less is more.”
“Less is more, almost”
“It is better to be good than to be original.”
“God is in the details.”
“Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.”
“Architecture is a social art.”
“Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.”

MARCEL LAJOS BREUER

“Architecture is a social art.”

MARCUS VITRUVIUS POLIO

“Architecture must meet 3 requirements: Strength, Beauty and Utilities.”
“Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgement is
formed of those works which are the result of other arts.”

OSCAR NIEMEYER
“Form follows beauty.”

PETER BEHRENS
“When change needs, asks a stranger.”

PHILIP JOHNSON
“Architecture is the art of how to waste space.”
“All architects want to live beyond their deaths.”
“All architects want to live beyond their deaths.”

RENZO PIANO
“Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.”

ROBERT MAILLART
“A bridge is like a house.”

ROBERT VENTURI
“Unity disguised as chaos – complexity and contradiction are often what make works of art both exciting and profound.”
“Less is bore.”
“Forms accommodates function.”

TADAO ANDO
“Without the spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I
use architecture to reconcile the two.
“I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.”

WALTER GROPIUS
“Art and Architecture, the new unity.”