Architects and their Dictums Flashcards
“Form follows function.”
SULLIVAN, LOUIS
“Form does not necessarily follow function.”
GAUDI, ANTONIO
“Form follows function- that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.”
WRIGHT, FRANK LLOYD
“Art and Architecture, the new unity.”
GROPUIS, WALTER
“Architecture is the reaching out for the truth”
KAHN, LOUIS
“Function influence but does not dictate form.”
SAARINEN, EERO
“Form follows beauty.”
NIEMEYER, OSCAR
“Less is more.”
LUDWIG, MIES VAN DER ROHE
“The house is a Machine to live in.”
LE CORBUSIER
“Architecture begins where engineering ends”
GROPIUS, WALTER
“There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?”
ZAHA HADID
“Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.”
FRANK GEHRY
“God is in the details.”
MIES VAN DER ROHE
“An idea is salvation by imagination.”
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
“As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.”
NORMAN FOSTER
