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FAMOUS ARCHITECT DICTUMS 

“ARCHITECTURE MUST M EET 3 REQUIREMENTS:“ FORM EVER FOLLOWS FUNCTION.”  -LOUIS HENRY SULLIVAN

“ OUR ARCHITECTURE REFLECTS TRULY AS A M IRROR.”  -LOUIS HENRI SULLIVAN

"THE ARCHITECT WHO COMBINES IN HIS BEING THE POWERSOF VISION, OF IMAGINATION, OF INTELLECT, OF SYMPATHY

WITH HUMAN NEED AND THE POWER TO INTERPRET THEMIN A LANGUAGE VERNACULAR AND TIME--- IS HE WHO SHALLCREATE POEMS IN STONE."- LOUIS SULLIVAN

“FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION”  - LOUIS SULLIVAN

"FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION- THAT HAS BEENMISUNDERSTOOD. FORM AND FUNCTION SHOULD BE ONE, JOINED IN A SPIRITUAL UNION"-FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

“ARCHITECTURE IS ORGANIC”

- FRANK LLYOD WRIGHT

“ THE THING ALWAYS H APPENS THAT YOU REALLY BELIEVEIN; AND THE BELIEF IN A THING MAKES IT HAPPE N.”  -FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

“ A DOCTOR CAN BURY HIS MISTAKES BUT AN ARCHITECTCAN ONLY ADVISE HIS CLIENT TO PLANT VINE S.”  -FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

“ THE GOOD BUILDING IS NOT ONE THAT HURTS THELANDSCAPE, BUT ONE WHICH MAKES THE LANDSCAPE MOREBEAUTIFUL THAN IT WAS BEFORE THE BUILDIN G WAS BUILT.”  -FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

"ARCHITECTURE IS THE TRIUMPH OF HUMAN IMAGINATIONOVER MATERIALS, METHODS, AND MEN, TO PUT MAN INTOPOSSESSION OF HIS OWN EARTH"

-FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

“ AN ARCHITECT’S MOST USE FUL TOOLS ARE AN ERASER ATTHE DRAFTING BOARD, AND A WRECKING BAR AT THE SITE.”  -FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

"EVERY GREAT ARCHITECT IS- NECESSARILY - A GREAT POET.HE MUST BE A GREAT ORIGINAL INTERPRETER OF HIS TIME,HIS DAY, HIS AGE"-FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

“ALL FINE ARCHITECTU RAL VALUES ARE HUMAN VALES, ELSENOT VALUABLE.”  -FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

“ I KNOW THE PRICE O F SUCCESS: DEDICATION, HARD WORK

AND AN UNREMITTING DEVOTION TO THE THINGS YOUWANT TO SEE HAPPEN.”  -FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

“ WE ARE CALLED TO BE ARCHITECTS OF THE FUTURE, NOTITS VICTIMS.”  -RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER

“ DOING MORE WITH LESS.”  -RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER

"WHEN I AM WORKING ON A PROBLEM, I NEVER THINKABOUT BEAUTY... BUT WHEN I HAVE FINISHED, IF THESOLUTION IS NOT BEAUTIFUL, I KNOW IT IS WRONG"-BUCKMINSTER FULLER 

"MAKE BIG PLANS; AIM HIGH IN HOPE AND WORK,REMEMBERING THAT A NOBLE, LOGICAL DIAGRAM ONCERECORDED WILL NOT DIE"-DANIEL BURNHAM

"MAKE NO LITTLE PLANS; THEY HAVE NO MAGIC TO STIRMEN'S BLOOD"-DANIEL BURNHAM

“FORM DOES NOT NECES SARILY FOLLOW FUNCTI ON” - 

ANTONIO GAUDI  

“ THOSE WHO LOOK FOR THE LAWS OF NATURE AS ASUPPORT FOR THEIR NEW WORKS COLLABORATE WITH THECREATOR.”  -ANONIO GAUDI

"ARCHITECTURE IS THE REACHING OUT FOR THE TRUTH"-LOUIS KAHN

“A HOUSE IS A HOUSE”  - LOUIS KAHN

“A BRIDGE IS LIKE A HOUSE”  - ROBERT MAILLART  

“FUNCTION INFLUENCE BUT DOES NOT DICTATE FORM”  - EERO SAARINEN

“ARCHITECTURAL -FORM EQUALS SOCIAL- FORM”  -ELIEL SAARINEN

"ALL ARCHITECTS WANT TO LIVE BEYOND THEIR DEATHS"-PHILIP JOHNSON

“ GOD IS IN THE DETAILS ”  -LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

“  ARCHITECTURE STARTS WHEN YOU CAREFULLY PUT TWOBRICKS TOGETHER. THERE IT BEGINS.”  -LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

"ARCHITECTURE IS THE WILL OF AN EPOCH TRANSLATEDINTO SPACE"-LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

"ARCHITECTURE STARTS WHEN YOU CAREFULLY PUT TWOBRICKS TOGETHER. THERE IT BEGINS"

-LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

“LESS IS MORE.”  -LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

"LESS IS A BORE"-ROBERT VENTURI

“MORE IS MORE.”  -ROBERT VENTURI

“FORMS ACCOMMODATES FUNCTION’

-ROBERT VENTURI

"TAKE CARE OF THE LUXURIESAND THE NECESSITIES WILL TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES"

-LE CORBUSIER 

"I PREFER DRAWING TO TALKING. DRAWING IS FASTER,AND LEAVES LESS ROOM FOR LIES"-LE CORBUSIER 

"SPACE AND LIGHT AND ORDER. THOSE ARE THE THINGSTHAT MEN NEED JUST AS MUCH AS THEY NEED BREAD OR APLACE TO SLEEP"-LE CORBUSIER 

"THE HOME SHOULD BE THE TREASURE CHEST OF LIVING"LE CORBUSIER 

"ARCHITECTURE IS THE LEARNED GAME, CORRECT ANDMAGNIFICANT, OF FORMS ASSEMBLED IN THE LIGHT"-LE CORBUSIER

“CUBE WITHIN A CUBE”  - LE CORBUSIER

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"THE HOUSE IS A MACHINE FOR LIVING IN"- LE CORBUSIER

“ ARCHITECTURE IS TH E LEARNED GAME, CORRECT ANDMAGNIFICENT, OF FORMS ASSEMBLED IN THE L IGHT.”  -LE CORBUSIER

“ TO CREATE ARCHITEC TURE IS TO PUT IN ORDER. PUTWHAT IN ORDER? FUNCT ION AND OBJECTS.”  -LE CORBUSIER

“ IT’S VERY ATMOSPHERIC. IT’S NOT A BUIL DING THAT IS ASEVERE STATEMENT IN THE SKYLINE. WE NEED THE HEIGHT;

OTHERWISE, THE BUILDING ALMOST DISAPPEARS BECAUSE ITIS SO SLENDER.”  -SANTIAGO CALATRAVA

“ART AND ARCHITECTURE, TH E NEW UNITY”  - WALTER GROPIUS

“ ARCHITECTURE BEGIN S WHERE ENGINEERING ENDS.”  -WALTER GROPIUS

“ A MODERN, HARMONIC  AND LIVELY ARCHITECTURE IS THEVISIBLE SIGN OF AN AUTHENTIC DEMOCRACY.”  -WALTER GROPIUS

“ A MODERN, HARMONIC  AND LIVELY ARCHITECTURE IS THEVISIBLE SIGN OF AN AUTHENTIC DEMOCRACY.”  -WALTER GROPIUS

“ A HARMONIOUS DESIG N REQUIRES THAT NOTHING BEADDED OR TAKEN AWAY.MARCUS VITRUVIUS POLLIO

“ ARCHITECTURE IS A SCIENCE ARISING OUT OF MANYOTHER SCIENCES, AND ADORNED WITH MUCH AND VARIEDLEARNING; BY THE HELP OF WHICH A JUDGMENT IS FORMEDOF THOSE WORKS WHICH ARE THE RESULT OF OT HER ARTS.”  - MARCUS VITRUVIUS POLLIO

STRENGTH, BEAUTY, AN D UNITY”  -MARCUS VITRUVIUS POLLIO

“ ALL ARCHITECTURE I S SHELTER, ALL GREATARCHITECTURE IS THE DESIGN OF SPACE THAT CONTAINS,CUDDLES, EXALTS, OR STIMULATES THE PERSONS IN THATSPACE.”  -PHILIP JOHNSON

“ ARCHITECTURE IS TH E ART OF HOW TO WAST E SPACE.”  -PHILIP JOHNSON

“ ALL ARCHITECTS WAN T TO LIVE BEYOND THE IR DEATHS.”  -PHILIP JOHNSON

“ ARCHITECTS TODAY TEND TO DEPRECIATE THEMSELVES,TO REGARD THEMSELVES AS NO MORE THAN JUSTORDINARY CITIZENS WITHOUT THE POWER TO REFORM THE

FUTURE.”  -KENZO TANGE

“MODERN ARCHITECTURE  NEED NOT TO BE WESTE RN”  - KENZO TANGE

“THE CITY MUST BE SU BJECT TO GROWTH, DECAY ANDRENEWAL”

-KENZO TANGE

“I BELIEVE THAT THE WAY PEOPLE LIVE CAN BE DIRECTED ALITTLE BY ARCHITECTU RE.”  -TADAO ANDO

“ I WOULD LIKE MY ARCHITECTURE TO INSPIRE PEOPLE TOUSE THEIR OWN RESOURCES, TO MOVE INTO TH E FUTURE.”  -TADAO ANDO

“ I HOPE THAT AMERICA AS A WHOLE, AND ESPECIALLY ITSARCHITECTS, WILL BECOME MORE SERIOUSLY INVOLVED INPRODUCING A NEW ARCHITECTURAL CULTURE THAT WOULDBRING THE NATION TO THE APEX –  WHERE IT HAS STOODBEFORE –  AND LEAD THE WORLD.”  -TADAO ANDO

“THAT ABSTRACT  FORMS, DERIVED FROM TECHNOLOGY ANDFUNCTION, CAN BE USED SENSITIVELY IN EVERYDAYCOMMERCIAL BUILDINGS, LARGE URBAN SCHEMES, ANDMONUMENTS.”  -IOH MING PEI

"IT IS NOT AN INDIVIDUAL ACT, ARCHITECTURE. YOU HAVETO CONSIDER YOUR CLIENT. ONLY OUT OF THAT CAN YOUPRODUCE GREAT ARCHITECTURE. YOU CANNOT WORK INTHE ABSTRACT"-IOH MING PEI

“ AN IMPORTANT WORK OF ARCHITECTURE WILL CREATEPOLEMICS.”  -RICHARD MEIER

“ MY PASSION AND GRE AT ENJOYMENT FOR ARCHITECTURE,AND THE REASON THE OLDER I GET THE MORE I ENJOY IT, ISBECAUSE I BELIEVE WE –  ARCHITECTS –  CAN EFFECT THEQUALITY OF LIFE OF T HE PEOPLE.”  

-RICHARD ROGERS

“ I THINK MY BEST SK ILL AS AN ARCHITECT IS THEACHIEVEMENT OF HAND-TO-EYE COORDINATION. I AM ABLETO TRANSFER A SKETCH INTO A MODEL INTO THEBUILDING.”  -FRANK GEHRY

“ ARCHITECTURE SHOUL D SPEAK OF ITS TIME AND PLACE,BUT YEARN FOR TIMELE SSNESS.”  -FRANK GEHRY

“ IN ANY ARCHITECTURE, THERE IS AN EQUITY BETWEEN THEPRAGMATIC FUNCTION AND THE SYMBOLIC FUNC TION.”  -MICHAEL GRAVES

“ ESCAPE FROM THE ARCHITECTURE GHETTO IS ONE OF THEMAJOR DRIVERS AND HAS BEEN FROM THE VERYBEGINNING.”  -REM KOOLHAAS

“  NOT MANY ARCHITECTS HAVE THE LUXURY TO REJECTSIGNIFICANT THINGS.”  -REM KOOLHAAS

“ PEOPLE CAN INHABIT ANYTHING. AND THEY CAN BEMISERABLE IN ANYTHING AND ECSTATIC IN ANYTHING.MORE AND MORE I THINK THAT ARCHITECTURE HASNOTHING TO DO WITH I T. OF COURSE, THAT’S  BOTHLIBERATING AND ALARMING.”  -REM KOOLHAAS

“ ANY ARCHITECTURAL PROJECT WE DO TAKES AT LEASTFOUR OR FIVE YEARS, SO INCREASINGLY THERE IS ADISCREPANCY BETWEEN THE ACCELERATION OF CULTUREAND THE CONTINUING SLOWNESS OF ARCHITECT URE.”  -REM KOOLHAAS

“  ALWAYS DESIGN A THING BY CONSIDERING IT IN ITS NEXTLARGER CONTEXT –  A CHAIR IN A ROOM, A ROOM IN AHOUSE, A HOUSE IN AN ENVIRONMENT, AN ENVIRONMENTIN A CITY PLAN.”  -ELIEL SAARINEN

“ARCHITECTURAL -FORM EQUALS SOCIAL- FORM.”  -ELIEL SAARINEN

“FUNCTION INFLUENCE BUT DOES NOT DICTATE FORM”  - EERO SAARINEN

"THE PURPOSE OF ARCHITECTURE IS TO SHELTER ANDENHANCE MAN'S LIFE ON EARTH AND TO FULFILL HIS BELIEFIN THE NOBILITY OF HIS EXISTENCE"-EERO SAARINEN

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 "TO ME, THE DRAWN LANGUAGE IS A VERY REVEALINGLANGUAGE, ONE CAN SEE IN A FEW LINES WHETHER A MANIS REALLY AN ARCHITECT"-EERO SAARINEN  

“ NOTHING IS AS DANG EROUS IN ARCHITECTURE ASDEALING WITH SEPARATED PROBLEMS. IF WE SPLIT LIFE INTOSEPARATED PROBLEMS WE SPLIT THE POSSIBILITIES TO MAKEGOOD BUILDING ART.”  -ALVAR AALTO

“  ARCHITECTURE HAS RECORDED THE GREAT IDEAS OF THEHUMAN RACE. NOT ONLY EVERY RELIGIOUS SYMBOL, BUTEVERY HUMAN THOUGHT HAS ITS PAGE IN THAT VASTBOOK.”  -VICTOR HUGO

“   ARCHITECTURE IS A ART WHEN ONE CONSCIOUSLY ORUNCONSCIOUSLY CREATES AESTHETIC EMOTION IN THEATMOSPHERE AND WHEN THIS ENVIRONMENT PRODUCESWELL BEING.”  -LUIS BARRAGAN

“ IT IS ESSENTIAL TO  AN ARCHITECT TO KNOW HOW TO SEE:I MEAN, TO SEE IN SUCH A WAY THAT THE VISION IS NOTOVERPOWERED BY RATIO NAL ANALYSIS.”  

-LUIS BARRAGAN

“  DOES IT FOLLOW THAT THE HOUSE HAS NOTHING INCOMMON WITH ART AND IS ARCHITECTURE NOT TO BEINCLUDED IN THE ARTS? ONLY A VERY SMALL PART OFARCHITECTURE BELONGS TO ART: THE TOMB AND THEMONUMENT. EVERYTHING ELSE THAT FULFILS A FUNCTIONIS TO BE EXCLUDED FROM THE DOMAIN OF ART.”  -ADOLF LOOS

“ ARCHITECTURE AROUS ES SENTIMENTS IN MAN. THEARCHITECT’S TASK THE REFORE, IS TO MAKE THOSESENTIMENTS MORE PREC ISE.”  -ADOLF LOOS

“  EACH NEW SITUATION REQUIRES A NEW ARCHITECTURE.”  

-JEAN NOUVEL

“ TO PROVIDE MEANING FUL ARCHITECTURE IS NOT TOPARODY HISTORY BUT T O ARTICULATE IT.”  -DANIEL LIBESKIND

“ IT IS INSUFFICIENT  FOR ARCHITECTURE TODAY TODIRECTLY IMPLEMENT AN EXISTING BUILDING TYPOLOGY; ITINSTEAD REQUIRES ARCHITECTS TO CAREFULLY EXAMINETHE WHOLE AREA WITH NEW INTERVENTIONS ANDPROGRAMMATIC TYPOLOG IES.”  -ZAHA HADID