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Dictums Flashcards

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A house is a house

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Louis Khan

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Less is more

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Mies van de Rohe

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Less is a bore

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Robert Venturi

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3
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Form follows function

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Louis Sullivan

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4
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A bridge is like a house

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Robert Mailart

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5
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Form does not necessarily follow function

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Antonio Gaudi

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6
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The client is chaos

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Rem Koolhaas

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7
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Form and function are one

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Frank Lloyd Wright

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8
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Architecture is a synthesis of the technology and the art

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Pierre Luigi Nervi

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9
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Architecture is expression of poetry

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Oscar Niemeyer

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10
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Architecture must have liberty of forms

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Oscar Niemeyer

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11
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Modern architecture need not be western

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Kenzo Tange

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12
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Architecture is the expression of the past

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Ieoh Ming Pei

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13
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Strength, beauty and unity

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Vitruvius

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14
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Design is how, form is what

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Richard Rogers

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15
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Nothing that is not practical can be beautiful

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Otto Wagner

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16
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Humanism

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Minoru Yamasaki

17
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Design as if you are a child

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Michael Graves

18
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Ornament equals crime

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Adolf Loos

19
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Classical forms language of both the arctuated and trabeated models

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Michael Graves

20
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Modern ideas in modern dress

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Charles Renee Makintosh

21
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Lift the building in the ground

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Adolf Loos

22
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Architecture is the only tangible expression of space

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Erich Mendelsohn

23
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Design by living men for living men

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Charles Renee Makintosh

24
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Function influence but does not dictate

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Eero Saarinen

25
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Beauty grows from necessity, not from repetition

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Eleil Saarinen

26
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Most important material is man

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Richard Nuetra

27
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Spiritual function is inseparable from practical function

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Eero Saarinen

28
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A house is like a flower pot

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Richard Nuetra

29
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The integration of notion of cheapness to create sublime conditions

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Rem Koolhaas

30
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A town in a town

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Otto Wagner

31
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Form is the mystery that defies description but brings people pleasure

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Alvar Aalto (Hugo Alvar Henric)

32
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A cube within a cube

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Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret)

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Straight lines belong to man, curved lines belong to God

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Antonio Gaudi

34
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A house is a machine to live in

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Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret)

35
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Nature and architecture are two different things

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Marcel Bruer

36
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Art and architecture, the new unity

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Walter Gropius

37
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Architecture built not for need, but for art

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Louis Khan

38
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Machine is to be our modern medium of design

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Walter Gropius

39
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Automobile is the most important organizing element in the structure

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Paul Rudolph

40
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Architecture is the art of wasting space

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Philip Johnson

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