Architects Dictums Flashcards
All architects want to live beyond their deaths.
PHILIP JOHNSON
Architecture is the art of how to waste space
PHILIP JOHNSON
The city must be subject to growth; decay and renewal.
KENZO TANGE
Architects today tend to depreciate themselves; to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.
KENZO TANGE
Form follows beauty.
OSCAR NIEMEYER
Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks; we must participate in the political struggle.
OSCAR NIEMEYER
Look; architecture has a lot of places to hide behind; a lot of excuses; The client made me do this. The city made me do this. Oh; the budget. I don’t believe that anymore.
FRANK GEHRY
Architecture should speak of its time and place; but yearn for timelessness
FRANK GEHRY
Forms accommodates function.
ROBERT VENTURI
Less is bore.
ROBERT VENTURI
Unity disguised as chaos- complexity and contradiction are often what make works of art both exciting and profound
ROBERT VENTURI
I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources; to move into the future.
TADAO ANDO
Without this spirit; Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism; I use architecture to reconcile the two.
TADAO ANDO
architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.
RENZO PIANO
Each new situation requires a new architecture.
JEAN NOUVEL
I think architecture has to be a gift.
JEAN NOUVEL
Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problem we split the possibilities to make good building art.
ALVAR AALTO
Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfills a function is to be excluded from the domain of art
ADOLF LOOS
Ornament is a crime and all ornamentation must be rejected
ADOLF LOOS
Form does not necessarily follow function.
ANTONIO GAUDI
Truth is indispensible to Architecture & architectural lie concepts.
AUGUSTE PERRET
A building is the combination of different geometric figures.
BENJAMIN H. LATROBE