Architects Dictums 

              
SULLIVAN, “Form follows function.”
LOUIS
GAUDI, “Form does not necessarily follow function.”
ANTONIO
WRIGHT, “Form follows function- that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be
FRANK LLOYD one, joined in a spiritual union.”

“Every great architect is –necessarily- a great poet. He must be a great original

interpreter of his time, his day, his age.”

GROPUIS, “Art and Architecture, the new unity.”

WALTER
KAHN, LOUIS “Architecture is the reaching out for the truth”

“A house is a house.”

MAILLART, “A bridge is like a house.”

ROBERT
(February 6,
1872 – April 5,
1940)

BURNHAM, “Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram
DANIEL once recorded will not die.”

“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood.”

SAARINEN, “Beauty grows from necessity not from repetition of formulas.”

ELIEL
“Architectural-form equals social-form.”
Gottlieb Eliel
Saarinen
(August 20,
1873 – July 1,
1950)

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

EERO 
(August 20,
1910 –
September 1,
1961)

PERRET, “Truth is indispensible to Architecture & architectural lie concepts.”

AUGUSTE 
(February 12,
1874 - February
25, 1954)
NIEMEYER, “Form follows beauty.”
OSCAR
Oscar Ribeiro “Architecture is invention.”
de Almeida
Niemeyer
Soares Filho
(December 15,
1907 –
December 5,
2012)

NERVI, PIER “Structural  correctness,  which  is  identical  with functional, technical &  economic  is 
LUIGI a  necessary  &  sufficient  condition  of  satisfactory  aesthetic  result.”
(June 21, 1891 –
January 9, 1979)

LUDWIG, MIES “Less is more.”

VAN DER
ROHE “Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.”
 Maria Ludwig
Michael Mies “Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.”
 (March 27,
1886 – August
19, 1969)

MENDELSOHN, “Architecture seizes upon space, encompasses space and is space itself.”
ERICH 
(March 21, 1887  “Architecture depends on the sensuous seizure by means of touch and sight.”
– September 15,
1953)

LOOS , ADOLF “Supply and demand regulate architecture form”

(December 10,
1870 – August
23, 1933)

LE “The house is a Machine to live in.” 

CORBUSIER
Charles- “Cube within a cube.”
Édouard
Jeanneret-Gris
(October 6, 1887
– August 27,
1965)

LATROBE , “A bldg. is the combination of different geometric figures.”

BENJAMIN H. 
(May 1, 1764 –
September 3,
1820)

JOHNSON, “Architecture is the art of how to waste space ”

PHILIP
CORTELYOU “All architects want to live beyond their deaths.”
(July 8, 1906 –
January 25,
2005)

GROPIUS, “Architecture begins where engineering ends”

WALTER 
(May 18, 1883 –
July 5, 1969)

BREUER, “A Building has straight geometrical lines. Even when these lines are free, it must
 MARCEL always be evident that they have been studied & that they did not spring up
LAJOS simultaneously.”
(May 21, 1902 –
July 1, 1981) “Nature & Architecture are two different things.” 

“Architecture is a social art.”  

POCIO, “Architecture must meet 3 requirements: strength, beauty, and unity.”

MARCUS
VITRUVIUS

( LUIS SULLIVAN )
“
Form follows function
”
 
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( LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE )
“
Less is more
”
 "Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space""Architecture starts when you carefully put
two bricks together. There it begins"

( ROBERT VENTURI )
“
Less is a bore
”
 
“Unity disguised as chaos
- complexity & contradiction is often what makes works

of
art both exciting & profound.”
 

( RICHARD JOSEF NEUTRA )
“
A house is like a flower pot
”
 

( CAESAR HOMER CONCIO )
“
The structure must be well oriented
”
 

( KENZO TANGE )
“
Modern architecture need not be western
”
 

( ADOLF LOOS )
“
Ornament equals crime
”
 

( BUCKMINSTER FULLER )
“A house is a machine for living”
 

( FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT )
“International style” as “
Flat chested
”
 "Form follows function- that has been misunderstood. Form and function shouldbe one, joined in a
spiritual union""Every great architect is- necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great
originalinterpreter of his time, his day, his age"

( ELIEL SAARINEN )
“Beauty grows from necessity, not from repetition of formulas”
 
“Architectural
-form equals social-
form”
 

( MICHAEL GRAVES )
“
Design as if you were a child
”