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PHILIP JOHNSONAll architects want to live beyond their deaths.

PHILIP JOHNSON Architecture is the art of how to waste space

KENZO TANGE The city must be subject to growth, decay and renewal.

Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as

KENZO TANGE
no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the
future.

OSCAR NIEMEYER "Form follows beauty."

. Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of

OSCAR NIEMEYER the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content
that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle.

Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses, The
FRANK GEHRY client made me do this. The city made me do this. Oh, the budget. I don't
believe that anymore.

FRANK GEHRY Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness

ROBERT VENTURI Forms accommodates function.

ROBERT VENTURI Less is bore.

Unity disguised as chaos- complexity and contradiction are often what

ROBERT VENTURI
make works of art both exciting and profound

I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources,

TADAO ANDO
to move into the future.

Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is
TADAO ANDO often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use
architecture to reconcile the two.

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

JEAN NOUVEL Each new situation requires a new architecture.

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Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems.

ALVAR AALTO If we split life into separated problem we split the possibilities to make
good building art.

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
ADOLF LOOS
architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else
that fulfills a function is to be excluded from the domain of art

ADOLF LOOS Ornament is a crime and all ornamentation must be rejected

ANTONIO GAUDI Form does not necessarily follow function.

AUGUSTE PERRET "Truth is indispensible to Architecture & architectural lie concepts."

BENJAMIN H. LATROBE "A bldg. is the combination of different geometric figures."

"We called architects of the future not its victims"

BUCKMINSTER FULLER
"Starting with holes"

Drawing architecture is a schizoid act: it involves reducing the world into a

EDUARDO SOUTO DE
MOURA piece of paper.

EERO SAARINEN Function influence but does not dictate form

ELIEL SAARINEN Architecture - form equals social-form

ELIEL SAARINEN "Beauty grows from necessity not from repetition of formulas."

ERICH MENDELSOHN "Architecture seizes upon space, encompasses space and is space itself."

"Architecture depends on the sensuous seizure by means of touch and

ERICH MENDELSOHN
sight."

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

DANIEL BURNHAM Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir mens blood.

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

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT Architecture is Organic.

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT 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.

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Think simples as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT An idea is salvation by imagination.

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth,

JOHN RUSKIN
that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

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
JOHN RUSKIN
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.

LE CORBUSIER The house ia a machine for living in.

LE CORBUSIER Architecture or Revolution

LE CORBUSIER 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
LOUIS KAHN architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he
does have that mind, does have that soul.

LOUIS KAHN "A house is a house."

LOUIS SULLIVAN Forms follows function

LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Less is more.

LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space

LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE God is in the details.

LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE It is better to be good than to be original.

LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Less is more, almost

LUCIO COSTA I am neither a capitalist nor a socialist, I am not a religious or an atheist.

LUCIO COSTA Each one sees whatever he wishes to see

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

MARCUS VITRUVIUS POLIO adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is
formed of those works which are the result of other arts.

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