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Architects Dictums Flashcards

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All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

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PHILIP JOHNSON

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Architecture is the art of how to waste space

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PHILIP JOHNSON

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The city must be subject to growth; decay and renewal.

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KENZO TANGE

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Architects today tend to depreciate themselves; to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.

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KENZO TANGE

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Form follows beauty.

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OSCAR NIEMEYER

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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.

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OSCAR NIEMEYER

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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.

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FRANK GEHRY

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Architecture should speak of its time and place; but yearn for timelessness

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FRANK GEHRY

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Forms accommodates function.

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ROBERT VENTURI

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Less is bore.

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ROBERT VENTURI

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Unity disguised as chaos- complexity and contradiction are often what make works of art both exciting and profound

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ROBERT VENTURI

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I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources; to move into the future.

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TADAO ANDO

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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.

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TADAO ANDO

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architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.

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RENZO PIANO

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15
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Each new situation requires a new architecture.

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JEAN NOUVEL

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I think architecture has to be a gift.

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JEAN NOUVEL

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17
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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.

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ALVAR AALTO

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18
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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

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ADOLF LOOS

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Ornament is a crime and all ornamentation must be rejected

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ADOLF LOOS

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20
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Form does not necessarily follow function.

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ANTONIO GAUDI

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21
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Truth is indispensible to Architecture & architectural lie concepts.

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AUGUSTE PERRET

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22
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A building is the combination of different geometric figures.

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BENJAMIN H. LATROBE

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23
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“We called architects of the future not its victims.” “Starting with holes.”

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BUCKMINSTER FULLER

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Drawing architecture is a schizoid act: it involves reducing the world into a piece of paper.

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EDUARDO SOUTO DE MOURA

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Function influence but does not dictate form

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EERO SAARINEN

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Architecture - form equals social-form

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ELIEL SAARINEN

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Beauty grows from necessity not from repetition of formulas.

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ELIEL SAARINEN

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Architecture seizes upon space; encompasses space and is space itself.

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ERICH MENDELSOHN

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Architecture depends on the sensuous seizure by means of touch and sight.

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ERICH MENDELSOHN

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Make big plans; aim high in hope and hope and work; remembering that a noble; logical diagram once recorded will not die.

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DANIEL BURNHAM

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Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir mens blood.

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DANIEL BURNHAM

32
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Every great architect is necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time; his day; his age.

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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

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Architecture is Organic.

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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

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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.

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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

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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.

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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

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An idea is salvation by imagination.

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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

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It seems a fantastic paradox; but it is nevertheless a most important truth; that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

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JOHN RUSKIN

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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.

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JOHN RUSKIN

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The house ia a machine for living in.

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LE CORBUSIER

40
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Architecture or Revolution

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LE CORBUSIER

41
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the exterior of the building is the result of the interior.

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LE CORBUSIER

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Architecture is the reaching out for the truth

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LOUIS KAHN

43
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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.

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LOUIS KAHN

44
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A house is a house.

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LOUIS KAHN

45
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Forms follows function

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LOUIS SULLIVAN

46
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Less is more.

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LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

47
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Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space

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LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

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God is in the details.

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LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

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It is better to be good than to be original.

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LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

50
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Less is more; almost

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LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

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I am neither a capitalist nor a socialist; I am not a religious or an atheist.

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LUCIO COSTA

52
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Each one sees whatever he wishes to see

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LUCIO COSTA

53
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Architecture is a social art.”

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MARCEL LAJOS BREUER

54
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Architecture must meet 3 requirements: Strength; Beauty; and Utilities

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MARCUS VITRUVIUS POLIO

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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.

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MARCUS VITRUVIUS POLIO

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