"Architectural-form equals social-form" "Form follows function"

= Eliel Saarinen = Louis Sullivan

"Form does not necessarily follows function" "The city must be subjected to growth, decay
and renewal"
= Antoni Gaudi
= Kenzo Tange

"A house is a house"

"God is in the Details"
= Louis Kahn
= Mies Van der Rohe

"The house is a machine to live in"

“The eradication of the superficial and
= Le Corbusier unnecessary, replacing elaborate applied
ornament with the straightforward display of
materials and forms”
"Art and Architecture, the new unity"
= Mies Van der Rohe
= Walter Gropius

"Architecture must meet three requirements:

"Less is more, almost" strength, beauty, unity"
= Mies Van de Rohe = Marcus Vitruvius Polio

"The first machine for living"
= Buckminster Fuller
"It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is
nevertheless a most important truth, that no
architecture can be truly noble which is not
imperfect "

"The Ultimate goal of the new architecture = John Ruskin

was the composite but inseparable work of an
art, in which the old dividing line between
monumental and decorative elements will
have disappeared forever"
= Walter Gropius
"To create architecture is to put in order; Put
what in order? Function and Objects"
= Le Corbusier

"A house is like a flower pot" "The exterior of the building is the result of
the interior"
= Richard Josef Neutra
= Le Corbusier

"Architecture is Invention"
“Form and Function are one”
= Oscar Niemeyer
= Frank Lloyd Wright

"Function influence but does not dictate form"

“The reality of a building is not the container
= Eero Saarinen
but the space within”
= Frank Lloyd Wright
"Form accommodates function"
= Robert Venturi
“The architect is a molder of men, whether or “Strength, Beauty and Unity”
nit he consciously assumes responsibility”
= Marcus Vitruvius
= Frank Lloyd Wright

“Architecture is an imitation of nature”

“Nature spelled with a capital N the way you
spell God with a capital G” = Marcus Vitruvius

= Frank Lloyd Wright

“Design is how, form is what”

“Organic architecture: all parts are related to = Richard Rogers

the whole as the whole was related to the
parts; continuity and integrity”
“Less is bore”
= Frank Lloyd Wright
= Robert Venturi

“Structural correctness is identical with

functional, technical and economic “Nothing that is not practical can be beautiful”
truthfulness”
= Otto Wagner
= Pier Luigi Nervi

“Essential basis of natural forms as

“Architecture is a synthesis of the technology geometries”
and art”
= Otto Wagner
= Pier Luigi Nervi

“Essential basis of natural forms as

“Intuition should be used as much as geometries”
mathematics in design, especially with thin
= Otto Wagner
shelled structure”
= Pier Luigi Nervi
“Humanism”
= Minoru Yamasaki
“Architecture is expression of poetry”
= Oscar Niemeyer
“Design as if you are a child”
= Michael Graves
“Architecture must have liberty of forms”
= Oscar Niemeyer
“Classical forms language of both the
arctuated and trabeated models”
“Modern architecture not need to be western”
= Michael Graves
= Kenzo Tange

“Ornament equals crime”

“Symbolism and blasphemies”
= Adolf Loos
= I.M Pei

“Lift the building in modern dress”

“Architecture is the expression of the past”
= Adolf Loos
= I.M Pei
“The visual distinction in using ornaments is “The integration of notion of cheapness to
not between complicated and simple, but create sublime conditions”
between ‘organic’ and superfluous
decoration” = Rem Koolhaas

= Adolf Loos
“A town in a town”

“Modern ideas in modern dress” =Otto Wagner

= Charles Renee Mackintosh

“Form is the mystery that defies description
but brings people pleasure”
“Design by living men for living men”
= Alvar Aalto
= Charles Renee Mackintosh

“God created paper for the purpose of

“Form follows function” drawing architecture on it, everything else is
at least for me an abuse of paper”
= Louis Sullivan
= Alvar Aalto

“A bridge is like a house”

“We should work for simple, good,
=Robert Mailart undecorated things which are in harmony with
the human being and organically suited to the
little man in the street”
“Architecture is the only tangible expression
of space” = Alvar Aalto

=Erich Mendelsohn
“A cube within a cube”

“Function and influence but does not dictate” = Le Corbusier

= Eero Saarinen
“Architecture is the masterly, correct, and
magnificent play of masses brought together
“Spiritual function is inseperable from in light”
practical function”
=Le Corbusier
= Eero Saarinen

“Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a

“Beauty grows from necessity, not from new kind of plan, both for the house and the
repetition” city”
= Eleil Saarinen =Le Corbusier

“Most important material is man” “Architecture or revolution”

= Richard Neutra = Le Corbusier

“The Client is Chaos”

= Rem Koolhaas
“Harmony and proportion are rhythms “Architecture built not for need, but for art”
apparent to the eye and clear in their relations
with one another” = Louis Khan

= Le Corbusier
“Automobile is the most important organizing
element in the structure”
“Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois”
= Paul Rudolph
= Le Corbusier

“Architecture is the art of wasting space”

“Architecture is the masterly, correct and
magnificent play of masses brought together
in light”
= Le Corbusier
= Philip Johnson
“In a house, you should get a surprise every
time you turn a corner and look up”

“Space and light and order, these are the =Ian Athfield
things men need just as much they need
bread or place to sleep”
“Post modern architecture focuses on forms
= Le Corbusier derived from the mind, body, and nature”
= Charles Jencks
“The ‘styles’ are a lie”
= Le Corbusier “Hyperbolic Parabolid”
= Antoni Gaudi
“Less is more”
= Mies van der Rohe “Skin and Bone Structure”
= Mies Van Der Rohe
“Straight lines belong to man, curved lines
belong to God”
“Rush City”
= Antonio Gaudi
= Richard Neutra

“Nature and architecture are two different

things” “Reflective Glass”
= Marcel Breuer = Eero Saarinen

“Art and Architecture, the new unity” “Fluid Mass Theory”

= Walter Gropius = Erich Mendelsohn

“Machine is to be our modern medium of “Mushroom Slab Construction”

design”
= Robert Mailart
= Walter Gropius

“Ferrocement”
“A house is a house”
= Pier Luigi Nervi
= Louis Khan
“Textile Blocks, Organic Architecture”
= Frank Lloyd Wright