ARCHITECTS DICTUM

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PHILIP JOHNSON All 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 them-
KENZO TANGE selves as 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 the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the
OSCAR NIEMEYER
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
FRANK GEHRY excuses, The client made me do this. The city made me do this.
Oh, the budget. I don't believe that anymore.
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for
FRANK GEHRY
timelessness
ROBERT VENTURI Forms accommodates function.
ROBERT VENTURI Less is bore.
Unity disguised as chaos- complexity and contradiction are often
ROBERT VENTURI
what make works of art both exciting and profound
I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own
TADAO ANDO
resources, to move into the future.
Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since
TADAO ANDO there is 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
RENZO PIANO
can fight against gravity.
JEAN NOUVEL Each new situation requires a new architecture.
JEAN NOUVEL I think architecture has to be a gift.
Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated
ALVAR AALTO problems. If we split life into separated problem we split the pos-
sibilities 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
ADOLF LOOS 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
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
EDUARDO SOUTO DE MOURA
world into a 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."
"Architecture seizes upon space, encompasses space and is
ERICH MENDELSOHN
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"Architecture depends on the sensuous seizure by means of touch
ERICH MENDELSOHN
and sight."
Make big plans; aim high in hope and hope and work, remember-
DANIEL BURNHAM
ing that 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
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
great 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
ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all
the day of your life.
Think simples as my old master used to say - meaning reduce
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first
principles.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT An idea is salvation by imagination.
Frank Lloyd Wright form and function are one"
It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most im-
JOHN RUSKIN portant truth, 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
JOHN RUSKIN 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.
LE CORBUSIER The house is 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
LOUIS KAHN piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help re-
assure 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
I am neither a capitalist nor a socialist, I am not a religious or an
LUCIO COSTA
atheist.
LUCIO COSTA Each one sees whatever he wishes to see
MARCEL LAJOS BREUER Architecture is a social art."
Architecture must meet 3 requirements: Strength, Beauty, and
MARCUS VITRUVIUS POLIO
Utilities
Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and
adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a
MARCUS VITRUVIUS POLIO
judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other
arts.
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the architect is a molder of men, whether or not he consciously
Frank Lloyd Wright
assumes responsibility"
nature spelled with a capital N the way you spell God with a capital
Frank Lloyd Wright
G"
organic architecture: all parts are related to the whole as the whole
Frank Lloyd Wright
was related to the parts; continuity and integrity"
Pierre Luigi Nervi "architecture is a synthesis of the technology and art"
structural correctness is identical with functional, technical and
Pierre Luigi Nervi
economic truthfulness
Oscar Niemeyer architecture must have liberty of forms"
Kenzo Tange "modern architecture need not be western"
Ieoh Ming Pei "symbolisms and blasphemies"
Ieoh Ming Pei "architecture is the expression of the past
Richard Rogers design is how, form is what"
Otto Wagner "nothing that is not practical can be beautiful"
Otto Wagner "essential basis of natural forms as geometries"
Minoru Yamasaki "humanism"
Michael graves "design as if you are a child"
classical forms language of both the arctuated and trabeated
Michael graves
models"
Adolf Loos "ornament equals crime"
Adolf Loos "lift the building in the ground"
Charles Renee Mackintosh "modern ideas in modern dress"
Charles Renee Mackintosh "design by living men for living men"
mushroom slab construction
Robert Mailart
"a bridge is like a house"
fluid mass theory
Erich Mendelsohn
"architecture is the only tangible expression of space"
Eero Saarinen "spiritual function is inseparable from practical function"
Eleil Saarinen "beauty grows from necessity, not from repetition"
Richard Nuetra "a house is like a flower pot"
Richard Nuetra most important material is man"
Rem Koolhaas "the client is chaos"
"the integration of notion of cheapness to create sublime condi-
Rem Koolhaas
tions"
Otto Wagner "a town in a town"
"form is the mystery that defies description but brings people
Alvar Aalto (Hugo Alvar Henric)
pleasure"
Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret} "a cube within a cube"
"architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of
Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret}
masses brought together in light"
"space and light and order. these are the things men need just as
Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret}
much they need bread or place to sleep
Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret} "the „styles are a lie"
Antonio Gaudi "straight lines belong to man, curved lines belong to God"
Marcel Bruer "nature and architecture are two different things"
Walter Gropius "art and architecture, the new unity"

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Walter Gropius machine is to be our modern medium of design
Louis Khan architecture built not for need, but for art"
"automobile is the most important organizing element in the struc-
Paul Rudolph
ture
Oscar Niemeyer Architecture is invention
adolf loos Supply and demand regulate architecture form"
"Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
There it begins."
Walter Gropius "Architecture begins where engineering ends"
A Building has straight geometrical lines. Even when these lines
Marcel Bruer are free, it must always be evident that they have been studied &
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