Dictums Flashcards
A house is a house
Louis Khan
Less is more
Mies van de Rohe
Less is a bore
Robert Venturi
Form follows function
Louis Sullivan
A bridge is like a house
Robert Mailart
Form does not necessarily follow function
Antonio Gaudi
The client is chaos
Rem Koolhaas
Form and function are one
Frank Lloyd Wright
Architecture is a synthesis of the technology and the art
Pierre Luigi Nervi
Architecture is expression of poetry
Oscar Niemeyer
Architecture must have liberty of forms
Oscar Niemeyer
Modern architecture need not be western
Kenzo Tange
Architecture is the expression of the past
Ieoh Ming Pei
Strength, beauty and unity
Vitruvius
Design is how, form is what
Richard Rogers
Nothing that is not practical can be beautiful
Otto Wagner