Architects Dictum
Architects Dictum
Architects Dictum
1. LOUIS SULLIVAN Forms ever follows function 25. ERICH Architecture depends on the sensuous
MENDELSOHN seizure by means of touch and sight
2. LOUIS SULLIVAN The buildings identify resides in the
ornament 26. ADOLF LOOS Supply and demand regulate architecture
form
3. FRANK LLOYD Forms follows function
WRIGHT 27. THOMAS Light Gods; eldest daughter is a principal
FULLER beauty in a bldg
4. FRANK LLOYD Every great architect is necessarily a
WRIGHT great poet 28. JAMES ignorance transcends architecture
GASKIN
5. WALTER GROPIUS Art and architecture, the new unity
29. ORIOL Public space in the city
6. WALTER GROPIUS Architecture begins where engineering
BOHIGAS
ends
30. MARCEL ARCHITECTURE IS A SOCIAL ART
7. ROBERT A bridge is like a house
LAJOS
MAILLART
BREUER
8. DANIEL Make big plans
31. LE Charles Edouard Jeanneret Gris
BURNHAM
CORBUSIER
9. DANIEL Make no little plans
32. LE Cube within a cube
BURNHAM
CORBUSIER
10. ELIEL SAARINEN Gottlieb
33. LE The exterior of the building is the result of
11. ELIEL SAARINEN Beauty grows from necessity not from CORBUSIER the interior
repetition of formulas
34. LE Architecture or Revolution - "Towards an
12. ELIEL SAARINEN Architectural forms equals social form CORBUSIER Architecture"
13. EERO SAARINEN Function influence but does not dictate 35. LE The house is a machine for living in
form CORBUSIER
14. AUGUSTE PERRET Truth is indispensable to architecture 36. LE There is no work of art without a system
and architectural lie concepts CORBUSIER
15. OSCAR Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer 37. LE Architecture is a learned game, correct and
NIEMEYER Soares Filho CORBUSIER magnificent forms assembles in the light
16. OSCAR Forms follows beauty 38. LE To create architecture is to put in order
NIEMEYER CORBUSIER
17. OSCAR Architecture is inventions 39. LE Beautiful catastrophe
NIEMEYER CORBUSIER
18. OSCAR Forms follows feminine 40. BENJAMIN H. A building is the combination of different
NIEMEYER LATROBE geometric figure
19. PIER LUIGI NERVI Structure correctness, identical with 41. PHILIP Architecture is the art of how to waste
functional. JOHNSON space
20. LUDWIG MIES Maria Ludwig Michael Mies 42. PHILIP All architects want to live beyond their
VAN DER ROHE JOHNSON deaths
21. LUDWIG MIES Less is more 43. MARCEL Nature and architecture are two different
VAN DER ROHE LAJOS things
22. LUDWIG MIES Architect is the will of an epoch BREUER
VAN DER ROHE translated into space 44. MARCUS Architecture must meet 3 requirements,
23. LUDWIG MIES Architecture starts when you carefully VITRUVIUS strenght, beauty and unity
VAN DER ROHE put two bricks together POLIO
24. ERICH Architecture siezes upon space 45. ADOLF LOOS Ornamentation is a crime
MENDELSOHN 46. ALVAR AALTO Separated problem, we spit the possibilities
to make good building art
47. BUCKMINSTER We called architects of the future not its 71. MARCUS Architecture is a science arising out of many
FULLER victims VITRUVIUS other sciences
POLIO
48. BUCKMINSTER Starting with holes
FULLER 72. MARCUS Commodity, firmness, delight
VITRUVIUS
49. FRANK GEHRY Architects should speak of its time and
POLIO
place, but yearn for timelessness
73. OSCAR Architecture will always express the technical
50. FRANK GEHRY 98% of what gets builts today is shit
NIEMEYER and social progress of the country in which it
51. FRANK LLOYD An idea is salvation by imagination is carried out
WRIGHT
74. RENZO Discipline; beauty within city
52. FRANK LLOYD Architecture is organic PIANO
WRIGHT
75. ROBERT Forms accommodate function
53. FRANK LLOYD A doctor can burry his mistakes, but an VENTURI
WRIGHT architect can only advise his clients to plant
76. ROBERT Unity disguise as chaos
vines
VENTURI
54. JEAN NOUVEL Thinks architecture has to be a gift
77. ROBERT Less is bore
55. JEAN NOUVEL Each new situation requires a new VENTURI
architecture
78. TADAO (Logic and modernism) architecture - inspire!
56. JEAN NOUVEL Aesthetic or miracle. ANDO
57. JOHN RUSKIN Fantastic paradox 79. BERTRAND The fact is that automobile no longer have a
58. JOHN RUSKIN As impossible to raise the dead DE LANOE place in the big cities of our time
59. KENZO TANGE The city must be subject to growth, decay 80. NORMAN If you werent an optimist, it would be
& renewal FOSTER impossible to be an architect
60. KENZO TANGE Architects today tend to deppreciate 81. NORMAN Architecture is an expression of values
themselves FOSTER
61. KENZO TANGE Modern architecture need not to be western 82. I.M. PEI Life is architecture and architecture is the
mirror of life
62. LOUIS KHAN A house is a house
83. CHARLES Constraints are very important
63. LOUIS KHAN Architecture is the reaching out for the truth
GWATHMEY
64. LOUIS KHAN Immeasurable; student
84. CARLOS Particularly fond concrete, symbol of
65. LUCIO COSTA I am neither a capatalist nor a socialist, i VILLANUEVA construction progress of a whole century
am not a religious nor athiest
85. ZAHA Architecture is how the person places herself
66. LUCIO COSTA Each one sees whatever he wishes to see HADID in the space
67. LUDWIG MIES God is in the details 86. ZAHA If you want an easy life, dont be an architect
VAN DER HADID
ROHE
87. ZAHA Architecture really about well being
68. LUDWIG MIES It is better to be good than to be an HADID
VAN DER original
88. PATRICK Less is more work
ROHE
McCUE
69. LUDWIG MIES Never talk to a client about architecture
89. GOETHE i call architecture a "petrified music"
VAN DER
ROHE 90. WINSTON We shape our buildings; thereafter they
CHURCHILL shape us
70. LUDWIG MIES An architect of ability should be able to tell
VAN DER a client what he wants 91. CHARLES The details are not the details. They make the
ROHE EAMES design
92. MICHAEL GRAVES Any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function
93. MICHAEL GRAVES if i have a style, i am not aware of it
94. MICHAEL GRAVES I have no requirements for a style of architecture
95. MICHAEL GRAVES I dont believe in morality in architecture
96. ANTONIO GAUDI Forms does not necessarily follows function
97. ANTONIO GAUDI Copiers do not collaborate
98. ANTONIO GAUDI Those who look for the laws of nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator
99. LEANDRO VALENCIA The poet of space
LOCSIN
100. PABLO ANTONIO A truly great work of architecture must express harmony, simplicity, organic beauty, natural integrity
and beauty
101. FRANCISCO BOBBY I design filipino
MANOSA
102. FRANCISCO BOBBY Architecture must be true to itself, its land and its people
MANOSA
103. FRANCISCO BOBBY Use of indigenous materials
MANOSA
104. RICHARD NEUTRA A house is like a flower pot
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