Dictums

Question 0

A house is a house

Answer 0

Louis Khan

Question 1

Less is more

Answer 1

Mies van de Rohe

Question 2

Less is a bore

Answer 2

Robert Venturi

Question 3

Form follows function

Answer 3

Louis Sullivan

Question 4

A bridge is like a house

Answer 4

Robert Mailart

Question 5

Form does not necessarily follow function

Answer 5

Antonio Gaudi

Question 6

The client is chaos

Answer 6

Rem Koolhaas

Question 7

Form and function are one

Answer 7

Frank Lloyd Wright

Question 8

Architecture is a synthesis of the technology and the art

Answer 8

Pierre Luigi Nervi

Question 9

Architecture is expression of poetry

Answer 9

Oscar Niemeyer

Question 10

Architecture must have liberty of forms

Answer 10

Oscar Niemeyer

Question 11

Modern architecture need not be western

Answer 11

Kenzo Tange

Question 12

Architecture is the expression of the past

Answer 12

Ieoh Ming Pei

Question 13

Strength, beauty and unity

Answer 13

Vitruvius

Question 14

Design is how, form is what

Answer 14

Richard Rogers

Question 15

Nothing that is not practical can be beautiful

Answer 15

Otto Wagner

Question 16

Humanism

Answer 16

Minoru Yamasaki

Question 17

Design as if you are a child

Answer 17

Michael Graves

Question 18

Ornament equals crime

Answer 18

Adolf Loos

Question 19

Classical forms language of both the arctuated and trabeated models

Answer 19

Michael Graves

Question 20

Modern ideas in modern dress

Answer 20

Charles Renee Makintosh

Question 21

Lift the building in the ground

Answer 21

Adolf Loos

Question 22

Architecture is the only tangible expression of space

Answer 22

Erich Mendelsohn

Question 23

Design by living men for living men

Answer 23

Charles Renee Makintosh

Question 24

Function influence but does not dictate

Answer 24

Eero Saarinen

Question 25

Beauty grows from necessity, not from repetition

Answer 25

Eleil Saarinen

Question 26

Most important material is man

Answer 26

Richard Nuetra

Question 27

Spiritual function is inseparable from practical function

Answer 27

Eero Saarinen

Question 28

A house is like a flower pot

Answer 28

Richard Nuetra

Question 29

The integration of notion of cheapness to create sublime conditions

Answer 29

Rem Koolhaas

Question 30

A town in a town

Answer 30

Otto Wagner

Question 31

Form is the mystery that defies description but brings people pleasure

Answer 31

Alvar Aalto (Hugo Alvar Henric)

Question 32

A cube within a cube

Answer 32

Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret)

Question 33

Straight lines belong to man, curved lines belong to God

Answer 33

Antonio Gaudi

Question 34

A house is a machine to live in

Answer 34

Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret)

Question 35

Nature and architecture are two different things

Answer 35

Marcel Bruer

Question 36

Art and architecture, the new unity

Answer 36

Walter Gropius

Question 37

Architecture built not for need, but for art

Answer 37

Louis Khan

Question 38

Machine is to be our modern medium of design

Answer 38

Walter Gropius

Question 39

Automobile is the most important organizing element in the structure

Answer 39

Paul Rudolph

Question 40

Architecture is the art of wasting space

Answer 40

Philip Johnson