ARCHITECTS AND THEIR FAMOUS PHILOSOPHIES AND WORKS

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Le Corbusier (Charles-
Eduard Jeanneret-Gris)
Swiss/French 1. A house is a machine
for living in
2. Space and light and
order. Those are the
things that men need
just as much as they
need bread or a place to
sleep
1. Villa Savoye, France
2. Notre Dame du Haut,
Ronchamp, France
3. Unit d Habitation,
Marseille, France
4. Buildings in Chandiragh,
India
5. National Museum of
Western Art, Tokyo
Ludwig Mies Van de
Rohe
German/American 1. God is in the details
2. Less is more
3. Architecture is the will
of an epoch translated
into space
1. Barcelona Pavilion
2. Tugendhat House
3. Crown Hall
4. Farnsworth House,
Illinois
5. 860-880 Lake Shore
Drive, Illinois
6. Seagram Building, New
York
7. New National Gallery
8. Toronto-Dominion Centre
Walter Adolf Georg
Gropius
German/American 1. Architects, sculptors,
painters, we must all
return to the crafts. For
art is not a profession.
There is no essential
difference between the
artist and the
craftsman. The artist is
the exalted craftsman.
1. Bauhaus Building Dessau,
Germany
2. Gropius Residence,
Massachusetts
3. Harvard Graduate Center
4. Pan Am Building, New
York
Frank Lloyd Wright American 1. A doctor can bury his
mistakes but an
architect can only
advise his clients to
plant vines.
2. Organic buildings are
the strength and
lightness of the spiders
spinning, buildings
qualified by light bred
by native character to
environment, married
to the ground.
3. Space is the breath of
art.
4. The architect must be a
prophet. A prophet in
the true sense of the
term. If he cant see at
least ten years ahead
dont call him an
architect.
1. Robie House, Illinois
2. Kaufmann House or the
Falling water, Bear Run,
Pennsylvania
3. Guggenheim Museum,
New York
4. Johnson Wax
Headquarters, Wisconsin
Henry Louis Sullivan American 1. Form Follows
Function
1. Auditorium Building,
Chicago
2. Carson Pirie Scott store,
Chicago
3. Van Allen Building,
Clinton, Iowa
4. Guaranty Building
(formerly Prudential
Building), Buffalo
5. Krause Music Store,
Chicago
Oscar Neimeyer Brazilian 1. Bull#!+!! Architecture
has always been for the
rich and never for the
power people.
2. My work is not about
form follows function,
but forms follows
beauty or, even better,
form follows feminine.
3. Architecture is about
surprise.
1. United Nations
headquarters City of
Brasilia
2. Edificio Copan National
Congress of Brazil
3. Cathedral of Brazilia
Tadao Ando Japanese 1. Japanese traditional
architecture is created
based on these
conditions. This is the
reason you have a very
high degree of
connection between the
outside and inside in
architecture
2. My hand is the
extension of the
thinking process the
creative process
1. Row house, Sumiyoshi
2. Church of the Light, Osaka
3. Water Template, Awaji
4. Rokko Housing I, II, III,
Kobe
5. Langen Foundation,
Netherlands
Norman Foster British 1. Control is the wrong
word. The practice is
very much about
sharing, and in any
creative practice, some
individuals, whether
partners or directors,
are much closer to
certain projects than I
could ever be.
1. The Hearst Tower, New
York
2. The Expo MRT Station,
part of the Mass Rapid
Transit System in
Singapore
3. Metropolitan Building,
Warsaw
4. Dreden Hauptbanhof roof
and cupola
5. Deustche Bank Place,
Sydney, Australia
6. HSBC Main Building, Hong
Kong






Richard Buckminster
Bucky Fuller
American 1. A designer is an
emerging synthesis of
artist, inventor,
mechanic, objective
economist and
evolutionary strategist.
2. Dont fight forces, use
them.
1. The Geodesic Dome
Antonio Gaudi Spanish 1. Copier do not
collaborate
2. Color in certain places
has the great value of
making the outlines and
structural planes seem
more energetic
1. The Casa Mila, Barcelona
2. The Temple Expiatori de
la Sagrada Familia, Spain
3. Park Gell, El Carmel,
Barcelona
Peter Behrens German 1. Type is one of the most
eloquent means of
expression in very
epoch of style. Next to
architecture, it gives the
most characteristic
portrait of a period and
the most severe
testimony of a nations
intellectual status.
1. AEG Turbine Factory,
Berline, Germany
Philip Cortelyou
Johnson
American 1. All architects want to
live beyond their
deaths.
2. Architects are pretty
much high-class
whores. We can turn
down projects the way
they can turn down
clients, but weve both
got to say yes to
someone if we want to
stay in business.
3. Architecture is the art
of how to waste space.
1. Chapel of St. Basil on the
Academic Mall at the
University of St. Thomas,
Houston, Texas
2. Puerta de Europa, Madrid
3. The Glass House,
Connecticut
4. The postmodern AT&T
Building, now the Sony
Building
5. The Crystal Cathedral,
Garden Grove, California
Erich Mendelson German Jewish n/a 1. Einstein Tower in
Potsdam, Germany
2. Hat Factory, Luckenwalde
3. The Red Flas Textile
Factory, Saint Petersburg
4. Mossehaus, Berlin,
Germany
5. Petersdorff department
store in Wroclaw






Frei Otto German n/a 1. West Germany Pavilion at
Expo 67 Montreal
2. Tuwaiq Palace, Saudi
Arabia, with Buro
Happold
3. Roof for Olympic Stadium,
Munich
4. Otto is the worlds leading
authority on lightweight
tensile and membrane
structures
Jean Nouvel French 1. Each new situation
requires a new
architecture.
1. Torre Aiges de Barcelona
(Agbar), Barcelona
2. Apartment Building at
100 11
th
Avenue (Nouvel),
Manhattan
3. Guthrie Theater (2006),
Minneapolis
4. Museo Nacional Centro de
Arte Reina Sofia (2005),
Madrid
5. Dentsu Building (1198),
Tokyo
Renzo Piano Italian 1. A museum is a place
where one should lose
ones head.
1. Pompidou centre, Paris
2. Nemo Science Centre,
Amsterdam
3. High Museum of Art
Expansion, Atlanta,
Georgia
4. Modern Wing of the Art
Institute of Chicago
5. Nichols Bridgeway,
Chicago, Illinois
Ieoh Ming Pei (I.M. Pei) Chinese American 1. I believe in the
continuity of this
tradition for it is by no
mean a relic of the past
but a living force that
animates and informs
the present
2. The greatest challenge
and the greatest
accomplishments of my
career. Pei on the
completion of the glass
pyramid
3. Architectural tradition
is a living force that
animates the present.
1. Bank of China Tower,
Hong Kong
2. Morton H. Meyerson
Symphony Center, Dallas,
Texas
3. The Louvre, Paris
4. John Hancock Tower,
Boston
5. Dallas City Hall
Aldo Rossi Italian n/a 1. Bonnefanten Museum,
Maastricht
2. The Quarter
Schzenstrasse, Berlin

Eliel Saarinean Finnish 1. Always design a thing
by considering it in its
next larger context a
chair in a room, a room
in a house, a house in
an environment, an
environment in a city
plan.
1. National Museum of
Finland
2. Helsinki Central railway
station
3. Saint Pauls Church, Tartu
4. First Christian Church,
Columbus
5. Christ Church Lutheran,
Minneapolis
6. Finish Pavilion at the
Exposition Universelle,
Paris
7. Saarinean designed entire
city districts of Helsinki
Eero Saarinean Finnish 1. The character or
expression of any
building can only be
achieved if it is itself a
total expression. Like
any work of art, it must
be dominated by a
strong, simple concept.
All of its parts must be
an active part of one
dominant attitude.
1. Gateway Arch, St. Louis,
Missouri
2. TWA Terminal at JFK
International Airport
3. Washington Dulles
International Airport
4. US Embassies in Oslo and
London
5. IBM Rochester, a plant in
Rochester, Minnesota
Kenzo Tange Japanese 1. Architects today tend
to depreciate
themselves, to regard
themselves as no more
than just ordinary
citizens without the
power to reform the
future.
2. I am aware of changes
gradually taking place
in my own designs as
part of my thinking on
this matter.
1. Hiroshima Peace
Memorial Museum
2. Hiroshima Peace
Monument
3. Kagawa Prefectural, The
Government Building East
Office
4. Yamanashi Broadcasting
and Press Centre
5. Yoyogi National
Gymnasium
6. Tokyo Metropolitan
Government Office,
Shinjuku, Tokyo
7. Osaka Expo Festival Plaza
8. Fuji Television Building,
Odaiba, Tokyo
Jorn Utzon Danish n/a 1. The Sydney Opera House
2. Kuwait National Assembly
Building
3. Water tower in Svaneke,
Bornholm, Denmark
4. Skagen Odde Nature
Center, Denmark
5. Kingo Houses, Elsinore,
Denmark




Zaha Hadid British Iraqi 1. I dont think that
racism is as big a
problem as the women
business. But Ive never
faced it in Europe.
1. Bridge Pavilion in
Zaragoza, Spain
2. Bergisel Ski Jump,
Innsbruck, Austria
3. BMW Central Building,
Leipzig, Germany
4. Vitra Fire Station, Weil am
Rhein, Germany
5. Maggies Centre, Kirkcaldy
Santiago Calatrava Spanish 1. Its very atmospheric.
Its not a building that
is severe statement in
the skyline. We need
the height; otherwise,
the building almost
disappears because it is
so slender.
2. This is an opportunity
to make something
extremely practical and
logical, which at the
same time tries to
inspire the imagination
in a way that can
happen only here in
New York Harbor.
1. The Milwaukee Art
Museum, Milwaukee,
Wisconsin
2. Allen Lambert Galleria at
Brookfield Place, Toronto,
Canada
3. Puente del Alamillo at
night, made for the expo
92, Seville
4. Auditorio de Tenerife,
Canary Islands, Spain
5. TGV train station, Lige,
Belgium
6. Bahnhof Stadelhofen,
Zrich
Daniel Libeskind American 1. Cities are the greatest
creations of humanity.
2. To provide meaningful
architecture is not to
parody history but to
articulate it.
3. Winning a competition
in architecture is a
ticket to oblivion. Its
just an idea. Ninety-
nine percent never get
built.
1. Jewish Museum Berlin,
Berlin, Germany
2. Felix Nussbaum Haus,
Osnabrck, Germany
3. Imperial War Museum
North, Greater
Manchester, England
4. Westside Shopping and
Leisure Centre, Bern
Switzerland
5. London Metropolitan
University Graduate
Centre, London England
Adolf Loos Austrian 1. Architecture arouses
sentiments in man. The
architects task
therefore, is to make
those sentiments more
precise.
2. The house has to serve
comfort. The work of
art is revolutionary; the
house is conservative.
1. Caf Museum, Vienna
2. Khuner Villa, Kreuzberg,
Austria
3. American Bar, Vienna
4. Rufer House, Vienna
5. Villa Moller, Vienna










Marcel Bruer Hungarian n/a 1. Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York
2. Hagerty House, Cohasset,
MA
3. UNESCO headquarters,
Paris, France
4. Pennsylvania Pavilion,
1939 New York, Worlds
Fair
5. United States Embassy,
The Hague, Netherlands
Daniel Burnham American 1. Make big plans; aim
high in hope and work,
remembering that a
noble, logical diagram
once recorded will not
die.
2. Make no little plans;
they have no magic to
stir mens blood
1. Burnham Park, Baguio,
Philippines
2. Baguio City Planning
3. Flatiron Building, New
York
4. Union Station, El Paso,
Texas
5. Plan of Chicago
6. Negros Occidental
Provincial Capitol
Building, Bacolod,
Philippines
Mario Botta Swiss 1. I do not follow any
fixed criterion, perhaps
the only rule which
may be defined a
common denominator
of my work is that of
interrogating the place,
the site where a
transformation is to
take place.
1. Swisscom
Telecommunication
headquarters, Bellinzona
2. Harting
Technologiegruppe
headquarters, Minden
3. Casin di campione,
Campione D Italia
4. Watari Museum of
Contemporary Art in
Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Frank Gehry Canadian American 1. Architecture should
speak of its time and
place, but yearn for
timelessness.
2. Youve got to bumble
forward into the
unknown.
3. Liquid Architecture.
Its like Jazz you
improvise, you work
together, you play off
each other, you make
something, they make
something. And I think
its a way for me, its a
way of trying to
understand the city,
and what might happen
in the city.


1. The Guggenheim
Museum, Bilbao, Spain
2. The Experience Music
Project in Seattle
3. Walt Disney Concert Hall,
California
4. Dancing House, Prague
5. Art Gallery of Ontario,
Toronto, Canada
Minoru Yamasaki American 1. Japanese architecture
is very much copied in
this country and in
Europe.
2. We build buildings
which are terribly
restless. And buildings
dont go anywhere.
They shouldnt be
restless.
3. The World Trade
Center is a living
symbol of mans
dedication to world
peace. A representation
of mans belief in
humanity, his need for
individual dignity, his
beliefs in the
cooperation of men,
and, through
cooperation, his ability
to find greatness.
1. The former World Trade
Center, New York
2. One Woodward Avenue,
Detroit
3. One M&T Plaza, Buffalo,
New York
4. Temple Beth El,
Bloomfield Township,
Michigan
5. The Conservatory of
Music at Oberlin College
Robert Venturi American 1. Less is a bore.
2. It was very unusual to
employ prettiness as
part of a building.
1. Freedom Plaza,
Washington, D.C.
2. Sainsbury Wing of the
National Gallery, London
3. Episcopal Academy
Chapel, Newton Square,
Pennsylvania
4. Mielparque Nikko Kirifuri
Resort, Nikko National
Park, Japan
5. Childrens Museum,
Houston, Texas
Pier Luigi Nervi Italian n/a 1. The Tour de la Bourse,
Montreal
2. UNESCO Headquarters,
Paris
3. Stadio Artemio Franchi,
Florence
4. Exhibition Building,
Turin, Italy
5. The Pirelli Tower, Milan
6. Cathedral of Saint Mary of
the Assumption, San
Francisco, California