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
“We called architects of the future not its victims.” “Starting with holes.”
BUCKMINSTER FULLER
Drawing architecture is a schizoid act: it involves reducing the world into a piece of paper.
EDUARDO SOUTO DE MOURA
Function influence but does not dictate form
EERO SAARINEN
Architecture - form equals social-form
ELIEL SAARINEN
Beauty grows from necessity not from repetition of formulas.
ELIEL SAARINEN
Architecture seizes upon space; encompasses space and is space itself.
ERICH MENDELSOHN
Architecture depends on the sensuous seizure by means of touch and sight.
ERICH MENDELSOHN
Make big plans; aim high in hope and hope and work; remembering that a noble; logical diagram once recorded will not die.
DANIEL BURNHAM
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir mens blood.
DANIEL BURNHAM
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
Architecture is Organic.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty; you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty; it will remain with you all the day of your life.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
Think simples as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms; getting back to first principles.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
An idea is salvation by imagination.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
It seems a fantastic paradox; but it is nevertheless a most important truth; that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
JOHN RUSKIN
It is impossible; as impossible as to raise the dead; to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole; that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman; can never be recalled.
JOHN RUSKIN
The house ia a machine for living in.
LE CORBUSIER
Architecture or Revolution
LE CORBUSIER
the exterior of the building is the result of the interior.
LE CORBUSIER
Architecture is the reaching out for the truth
LOUIS KAHN
Every time a student walks past and really urgent; expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college; it can help reassure him that he does have that mind; does have that soul.
LOUIS KAHN
A house is a house.
LOUIS KAHN
Forms follows function
LOUIS SULLIVAN
Less is more.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated 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 be original.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
Less is more; almost
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
I am neither a capitalist nor a socialist; I am not a religious or an atheist.
LUCIO COSTA
Each one sees whatever he wishes to see
LUCIO COSTA
Architecture is a social art.”
MARCEL LAJOS BREUER
Architecture must meet 3 requirements: Strength; Beauty; and Utilities
MARCUS VITRUVIUS POLIO
Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences; and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.
MARCUS VITRUVIUS POLIO
