ARCHITECTS DICTUM 55 terms by dendu1626

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PHILIP JOHNSON All architects want to live beyondtheir deaths.

PHILIP JOHNSON Architecture is the art of how to wastespace

KENZO TANGE The city must be subject to growth,decay and renewal.

KENZO TANGE Architects today tend to depreciatethemselves, to regard themselves asno more than just ordinary citizenswithout the power to reform thefuture.

OSCAR NIEMEYER "Form follows beauty."

OSCAR NIEMEYER . Architecture will always express thetechnical and social progress of thecountry in which it is carried out. Ifwe wish to give it the human contentthat it lacks, we must participate inthe political struggle.

FRANK GEHRY Look, architecture has a lot of placesto hide behind, a lot of excuses, Theclient made me do this. The city mademe do this. Oh, the budget. I don'tbelieve that anymore.

FRANK GEHRY Architecture should speak of its timeand place, but yearn for timelessness

ROBERT VENTURI Forms accommodates function.

ROBERT VENTURI Less is bore.

ROBERT VENTURI Unity disguised as chaos­ complexityand contradiction are often whatmake works of art both exciting andprofound

TADAO ANDO I would like my architecture toinspire people to use their ownresources, to move into the future.

TADAO ANDO Without this spirit, Modernistarchitecture cannot fully exist. Sincethere is often a mismatch betweenthe logic and the spirit of Modernism,I use architecture to reconcile thetwo.

RENZO PIANO architects spend an entire life withthis unreasonable idea that you canfight against gravity.

JEAN NOUVEL Each new situation requires a newarchitecture.

JEAN NOUVEL I think architecture has to be a gift.

ALVAR AALTO Nothing is as dangerous inarchitecture as dealing withseparated problems. If we split lifeinto separated problem we split thepossibilities to make good buildingart.

ADOLF LOOS Does it follow that the house hasnothing in common with art and isarchitecture not to be included in thearts? Only a very small part ofarchitecture belongs to art: the tomband the monument. Everything elsethat fulfills a function is to beexcluded from the domain of art

ADOLF LOOS Ornament is a crime and allornamentation must be rejected

ANTONIO GAUDI Form does not necessarily followfunction.

AUGUSTE PERRET "Truth is indispensible toArchitecture & architectural lieconcepts."

BENJAMIN H. LATROBE "A bldg. is the combination ofdifferent geometric figures."

BUCKMINSTER FULLER "We called architects of the future notits victims""Starting with holes"

EDUARDO SOUTO DE MOURA Drawing architecture is a schizoidact: it involves reducing the worldinto a piece of paper.

EERO SAARINEN Function influence but does notdictate form

ELIEL SAARINEN Architecture ­ form equals social­form

ELIEL SAARINEN "Beauty grows from necessity notfrom repetition of formulas."

ERICH MENDELSOHN "Architecture seizes upon space,encompasses space and is spaceitself."

ERICH MENDELSOHN "Architecture depends on thesensuous seizure by means of touchand sight."

DANIEL BURNHAM Make big plans; aim high in hope andhope and work, remembering that anoble, logical diagram once recordedwill not die.

DANIEL BURNHAM Make no little plans; they have nomagic to stir mens blood.

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT Every great architect is necessarily ­ agreat poet. He must be a greatoriginal interpreter of his time, hisday, his age.

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT Architecture is Organic.

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT The longer I live the more beautifullife becomes. If you foolishly ignorebeauty, you will soon find yourselfwithout it. Your life will beimpoverished. But if you invest inbeauty, it will remain with you all theday of your life.

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT Think simples as my old master usedto say ­ meaning reduce the whole ofits parts into the simplest terms,getting back to first principles.

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT An idea is salvation by imagination.

JOHN RUSKIN It seems a fantastic paradox, but it isnevertheless a most important truth,that no architecture can be trulynoble which is not imperfect.

JOHN RUSKIN It is impossible, as impossible as toraise the dead, to restore anythingthat has ever been great or beautifulin architecture. That which I haveinsisted upon as the life of the whole,that spirit which is given only by thehand and eye of the workman, cannever be recalled.

LE CORBUSIER The house ia a machine for living in.

LE CORBUSIER Architecture or Revolution

LE CORBUSIER the exterior of the building is theresult of the interior.

LOUIS KAHN Architecture is the reaching out forthe truth

LOUIS KAHN Every time a student walks past andreally urgent, expressive piece ofarchitecture that belongs to hiscollege, it can help reassure him thathe does have that mind, does havethat 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 epochtranslated 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 beoriginal.

LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Less is more, almost

LUCIO COSTA I am neither a capitalist nor asocialist, I am not a religious or anatheist.

LUCIO COSTA Each one sees whatever he wishes tosee

MARCEL LAJOS BREUER Architecture is a social art."

MARCUS VITRUVIUS POLIO Architecture must meet 3requirements: Strength, Beauty, andUtilities

MARCUS VITRUVIUS POLIO Architecture is a science arising outof many other sciences, and adornedwith much and varied learning; bythe help of which a judgment isformed of those works which are theresult of other arts.