FAMOUS ARCHITECT DICTUMS
"ARCHITECTURE MUST MEET 3 REQUIREMENTS:
*FORMEVER FOLLOWS FUNCTION.”
LOUIS HENRY SULLIVAN
"OUR ARCHITECTURE REFLECTS TRULY AS A MIRROR”
“LOUIS MEWRI SULLIVAN
"THE ARCHITECT WMO COMBINES IN HIS BEING THE POWERS
OF VISION. OF IMAGIMATIGN, OF INTELLEGT. OF SYMPATHY
WITH HUMAN NEED AND THE POWER TO INTERPRET THEM iN A
LANGUAGE VERNACULAR AND TNE IS HE WHO SHALL
GREATE POEMS IN STONE *
Louis SULLIVAN
“FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION
Louis suLLivaN
"FORM FOLLOWS FUNGTION. THAT HAS BEEN
MISUNDERSTOOD, FORM AND FUNCTION SHOULD BE ONE,
JOINED IN SPIRITUAL. UION
“FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
“ARCHITECTURE IS ORGANIC”
FRANK LLYOD WRIGHT
“THE THING ALWAYS HAPPENS THAT YOU REALLY BELIEVE Ov
.ANO THE BELEF INA THING MAKES IT HAPPEN.”
“FRANK LLOYO WRIGHT
“A DOCTOR CAN BURY HIS MISTAKES BUT AN ARCHITECT CAN
ONLY ADVISE HIS CLIENT TO PLANT VINES.”
JFRANK LLOYO WRIGHT
THE GOOD BUILDING IS NOT ONE THAT HURTS THE
\LANOSGAPE, BUT ONE WHICH MAKES THE LANDSCAPE MORE
BEAUTIFUL THAMIT WAS BEFORE THE BUILDING WAS BUILT.”
“FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
"ARCHITECTURE IS THE TRIUMPH OF HUMAN IMAGINATION
(OVER MATERIALS, METHODS. AND MEN, TO PUT MAN INTO
POSSESSION OF HiS-WM EARTH
“PRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
“AM ARCHITECT'S MOST USEFUL TOOLS ARE AN ERASER AT
THE DRAFTING BOARD, AND A WRECKING BAR AT THE SITE”
“FRANK LLOYO WRIGHT
"EVERY GREAT ARCHITECT IS- NECESSARILY A GREAT POET.
HE MUST BE A GREAT ORIGINAL INTERPRETER OF HIS TIME,
HIS DAY, HIS AGE"
[FRANK LL O¥O WRIGHT
“ALL FINE ARCHITECTURAL VALUES ARE HUMAN VALES, ELSE
NOT VALUABLE”
“PRANK LLOYO WRIGHT
“I KNOW THE PRICE OF SUCCESS: DEDICATION, HARD WORK
ANO AN UNREMITTING DEVOTION TO THE THINGS YOU WANT
TO SEE HAPPEN"
JFRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
“WE ARE GALLED TO BE ARGHITEGTS OF THE FUTURE. NOT ITS
wer.”
-RIOHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER
“DOING MORE WITH LESS."
-REHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER
“WHEN AM WORKING OW A PROBLEM, | NEVER THINK ABOUT
BEAUTY... BUT WHEN IHAVE FINISHED, IF THE SOLUTIONJS
NOT BEAUTIFUL. IRNOW TIS WRONG"
UCKMINSTER FULLER
“MAKE BIG PLANS, Alld HIGH IN HOPE AND WORK.
‘REMEMBERING THAT A NOBLE, LOGICAL DIAGRAM ONCE
RECORDED Witt NOT DIE*
DANIEL BURNHAM
“MAKE NOLITTLE PLANS, THEY HAVE NOAGIC TO STIR MENS
L090"
-DANTEL BURNWAM
“FORM DOES NOT NECESSARILY FOLLOW FUNCTION" -
ANTONIO GAUDS
“THOSE WHO LOOK FOR THE LAWS OF NATURE AS A SUPPORT
FOR THEIR NEW WORKS COLLABORATE WITH THE CREATOR”
-ANONOGAUO!
"ARCHITECTURES THE REACHING OUT FOR THE TRUTH”
“LOUIS KAHN
"AHOUSE IS A HOUSE
LOWS KAHNE
"A.BRIDGE IS LIKE A HOUSE”
“ROBERT MALLART
“FUNCTIONINFLUENCE BUT DOES WOT DICTATE FORM
EERO SAARIVEN
“ARCHITECTURAL FORMEQUALS SOCIAL-FORM™
-ELIEL SAARIBVED
“ALL ARCHITECTS WANT TO LIVE BEYONG THEIR DEATHS”
Pies? JOHNSON
"G00 ISN THE DETALS”
-LUDHIG MES VANDER ROME
“ARCHITECTURE STARTS WHEN YOU CAREFULLYPUT TWO
BRICKS TOGETHER, THERE IT BEGINS."
-LUDWIG.NES VAN DER ROME
"ARCHITECTURES THE WILL OF ANEPGCH TRANSLATED INTO.
SPACE"
“LUDWIG IES VANDER ROME
"ARCHITECTURE STARTS WHEN YOU CAREFULLY PUT TWO
BRIGKS TOGETHER THERE IT BEGINS"
-LUBWIG IES VAN DER ROHE“TTIS. NOT AN INDIVIDUAL AGT, ARCHITECTURE. YOU HAVE TO
GONSIDER YOUR CLIENT, ONLY QUTOF THAT GAN YOU
PRODUCE GREAT ARCHITECTURE, YOUCANNOT WORK IN THE
ABSTRACT”
OH MING PEF
“AN IMPORTANT WORK OF ARCHITECTURE WILL CREATE
POLEMICS.”
“RICHARD MEIER
“MY PASSION AND GREAT ENJOYMENT FOR ARCHITECTURE.
ANO THE REASON THE OLDER | GET THE MORE ENJOY IT. IS
BECAUSE | BELIEVE WE — ARCHITECTS Gan EFFECT THE
QUALITY OF LIFE OF THE PEOPLE”
[RICHARD ROGERS
“THINK MY BEST SKILL AS AN ARCHITECT /S THE
ACHIEVEMENT OF HAND-TO-EVE COORDINATION, AM ABLE TO
TRANSFER A SKETCH INTO.A MODEL INTO THE BUILDING.”
“FRANK GEHRY
“ARCHITECTURE SHOULD SPEAK OF ITS TIME AND PLACE, BUT
YEARN FOR TIMELESSNESS.”
FRANK GEHRY
“INANY ARCHITECTURE, THERE IS AN EQUITY BETWEEN THE
PRAGMATIC FUNCTION AND THE $YMBOLIGFUNG TION,”
“MICHAEL GRAVES:
“ESCAPE FROM THE ARCHITECTURE GMETTOIS ONE OF THE
MAJOR DRIVERS AND HAS BEEN FROM THE VERY BEGINNING. ~
“REM KOOLWAAS
“NOT MANY ARCHITECTS HAVE THE LUXURY TO REJECT
SIGHIFICANT THINGS,”
REMKOOLHAAS
"PEOPLE GAN INMABIT ANYTHING. AND THEY CAN BE
(MISERABLE IN ANYTHING AND ECSTATIC IN ANYTHING, MORE
ANO MORE I THINK THAT ARCHITECTURE HAS NOTHING TO 00
WITHIT. OF COURSE, THAT'S BOTHLIBERATING AND
ALARMING.”
REMROOLHAAS
“ANY ARCHITECTURAL PROJECT WE DO TAKES AT LEAST
FOUR OR FIVE YEARS. SOINGREASINGLY THEREISA
DISCREPANCY BETWEEN THE ACCELERATION OF CULTURE
AND THE CONTINUING SLOWNESS OF ARCHITECTURE.”
"REM KOOLHARS
“ALWAYS DESIGNA THING BY CONSIDERING ITN ITS NEXT
LARGER CONTEXT — A CHAIR IN A ROGM A ROOM IN A HOUSE,
A HOUSE INAN ENVIRONMENT, AN ENVIRONMENT INA QTY
PUN"
-ELIEL SAARINEN
“ARCHITECTURAL FORMEQUALS SOCIAL-FORI.*
“EVEL SAARINEN
FUNCTION INFLUENCE BUT OES NOT DICTATE FORM”
EERO SAARINEN
“THE PURPOSE OF ARCHITECTURE #S TO SHELTER AND
ENHANGE MAN'S LIFE ON EARTH ANO TO FULFILL HIS BELIEF IN
THE NOBILITY OF HIS EXISTENCE
“EERO SAARINEN,
"TO ME, THE DRAWN LANGUAGE/SA VERY REVEALING
LANGUAGE, ONE CAN SEE INA FEW LINES WHETHERA MAN IS
REALLY AN ARCHITECT”
EERO SAARINEN
*“ NOTHING IS AS DANGEROUS IN ARCHITECTURE AS DEALING
WITH SEPARATED PROBLEMS IF WE SPLIT LIFE INTO
SEPARATED PROBLEMS WE SPLIT THE POSSIBWITIES TO MAKE
O00 BUILDING ART.”
“ALVAR AALTO
“ARCHITECTURE HAS RECORDED THE GREAT IDEAS OF THE
HUMAN RACE. NOT ONLY EVERY RELIGIOUS SYMBOL, BUT
EVERY HUMAN THOUGHT HAS JTS PAGE IN THAT VAST BOOK. *
“vicTOR HUGO
+ ARCHITECTURES AARTWHEM ONE CONSCIOUSLY OR
LUNGOWSGIOUSL Y GREA TES AESTHETIGEMOTION IN THE
ATMOSPHERE AND WHEN THIS ENVIRONMENT PRODUCES
WELLBEING.”
LUIS BARRAGAN
“ITIS ESSENTIAL TO AN ARCHITECT TO KNOW HOW TO SEE!
MEAN, TO SEE IN SUCHA WAY THAT THE VISION IS WO
OVERPOWERED BY RATIONAL ANALYSIS.”
AUIS BARRAGAN
“DOES /T FOLLOW THAT THE HOUSE HAS NOTHING IN
COMMON WITH ART ANDIS ARCHITECTURE NOT TO BE
INGLUDEDIN THE ARTS? ONLY A VERY SMALL PART OF
ARCHITECTURE BELONGS TO ART: THE TOMB AND THE
MONUMENT. EVERYTHING ELSE THAT FULFILS A FUNCTIONIS
TOBE EXCLUDED FROM THE DOMAINOF ART.”
“ADOLF LOOS
“ARCHITECTURE ARQUSES SENTIMENTS IN ALAM. THE
ARCHITECT'S TASK THEREFORE. [STO MAKE THOSE
SENTIMENTS MORE PRECISE.”
-ADOLF LOS
* EACH EW SITUATION REQUIRES A NEW ARCHITECTURE. *
“JEAN NOUVEL
“TOPROVIDE MEANINGFUL ARCHITECTURE [SNOT TO
PARODY HISTORY BUT TO ARTICULATE IT."
“DANIEL LIBESKIND,
“(TIS INSUFFICIENT FOR ARGHITEGTURE TODAY TO DIREGTLY
INPLEMENT AN EXISTING BUILDING TYPOLOGY: ITINSTEAD.
REQUIRES ARCHITECTS TO CAREFULLY EXAMINE THE WHOLE
AREA WITH NEW INTERVENTIONS AND PROGRAMMATIC
TYPOLOGIES."
-2AWAHADID“LESS IS MORE.”
‘LUDWIG MIES VANDER ROME
“LESSISA BORE
‘ROBERT VENTURI
"MORE IS MORE,”
-ROBERF VENTURI
"FORMS ACCOMMODATES FUNGTION
“ROBERT VENTURI
“TAKE CARE OF THE LUXURIES:
AND THE NECESSITIES WILL TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES"
LE CORBUSIER
“IPREFER DRAWING TO TALKING. DRAWING IS FASTER,
AND LEAVESLESS ROOM FORLIES"
LUE CORBUSIER
"SPACE AND LIGHT ANO GROER. THOSE ARE THE THINGS THAT
MEN NEED JUST AS MUCH AS THEY NEED BREAD OR A PLACE
TOSLEEP”
LE CORBUSIER
"THE HOME SHOULD BE THE TREASURE CHEST OF LIVING"
Le corausier
"ARCHITECTURE I$ THE LEARNED GAME, CORRECT AND
MAGNIFICANT. OF FORMS ASSEMBLED IN THE LIGHT”
{LE CORBUSIER
"cuBE WiTHINA CUBE”
: LECORSUSIER
"THE HOUSE IS AMACHINE FOR LIVING IY
Leconsusier
“ARCHITECTURE IS THE LEARNED GAME, CORRECT AND
MAGNIFICENT, OF FORMS ASSEMBLED IN THE LIGHT.”
LE CORBUSIER
* TO CREATE ARCHITECTURE |S TO PUTIN ORDER. PUT WHAT
IN ORDER? FUNCTIONAND OBJECTS.”
+4 CORBUSIER
“IFS VERY ATMOSPMERIC, IT NOT ABUIL DING THATIS A
SEVERE STATEMENT IN THE SKYLINE. WE NEED THE HEIGHT.
OTHERWISE, THE BUI.DING ALMOST DISAPPEARS BECAUSE IT
IS SOSUENDER™
“SANTIAGO CALA TRAVA
"ART AND ARCHITECTURE, THE NEW UNITY”
- WALTER GROPIUS
“ARCHITECTURE BEGINS WHERE ENGINEERING ENDS.”
-WALTER @ROPIUS
“AMGDERN, HARMGNIG AND LIVELY ARGHITEGTUREIS THE
VISIBLE SIGN OF AN AUTHENTICDEMOCRACY.
-WALTER GROPIUS
“A MODERN, HARMONIC AND LIVELY ARCHITECTURE |S THE
VISIBLE SIGN OF AN AUTHENTIC DEMOCRACY.”
WALTER GROPIUS
“A HARMONIOUS DESIGN REQUIRES THAT NOTHING BE ADDED:
(OR TaKeN away,
Mancus VITRUVIUS POLLIO
* ARCHITECTURE IS A SCIENCE ARISING OUT OF MANY OTHER
SCIENCES, AND ADORNED WITH MUGH AND VARIED LEARNING:
BY THE HELP OF WHICH A JUDGMENT IS FORMED OF THOSE
WORKS WHICH ARE THE RESULT OF OTMER ARTS.”
MARCUS VITRUVIES POL.LIO
STRENGTH, BEAUTY, ANDUNITY"
MARCUS VITRUVIUS POLIO
“ALL ARCHITECTURE IS SHELTER, ALL GREAT ARCHITECTURE
|S THE DESIGN OF SPACE THAT CONTAINS, CUDDLES, EXALTS,
OR STIMULATES THE PERSONS IN THAT SPACE."
PHILIP JOHNSON
“ARCHITECTURE IS THE ART OF HOW TO WASTE SPACE”
PHILIP JOHNSON
“ALL ARCHITECTS WANT TO LIVE BEYOND THEIR DEATHS.”
“PMILIP JOHNSON
“ARCHITECTS TODAY TEND TO DEPRECIATE THEMSELVES. TO
REGARD THEMSELVES AS NO MORE THAN JUST ORDINARY
CITIZENS WITHOUT THE POWER TO REFORM THE FUTURE”
“RENZO TANGE
“MODERNARCHITECTURE NEED NOT TO BE WESTERN”
+ KENZO TANGE
“THE CITY MUST BE SUBJECT TO GROWTH, DECAY AND
RENEWAL”
KENZO TANGE
“1 BELIEVE THAT THE WAY PEOPLE LIVE CAN BE DIRECTED A
LITTLE BY ARGHITEGTURE.”
TADAQ ANDO
“I WOULD LIKE MY AR GHITEGTURE TO INSPIRE PEOPLE TO USE
THEIR OWN RESOURCES, TO MOVE INTO THE FUTURE.”
TADAO ANDO
“IHOPE THATAMERICA AS A WHOLE, AND ESPECIALLY (TS
ARCHITECTS, WILL BECOME MORE SERIOUSLY INVOLVED IN
PRODUCING A NEW ARCHITECTURAL CULTURE THAT WOULD
BRING THE WATION TO THE APEX = WHERE JT HAS STOOD
BEFORE - AND LEAD THE WORLD,”
-TADAQANDO
“THAT ABSTRACT FORMS, DERIVED FROM TECHNOLOGY AND
FUNCTION, CANBE USED SENSITIVELY IN EVERYDAY
COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS, LARGE URBAN SCHEMES, AND.
MONUMENTS.”
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