World Architects Flashcards
“the decorative value of Futurist architecture depends solely on the use and original arrangement of raw or bare or violently colored materials”
Antonio Sant’Elia
His vision is a highly industrialized and mechanized city of the future, which he saw not as a mass of individual buildings but a vast, multi-level, interconnected and integrated urban conurbation designed around the “life” of the city
Antonio Sant’Elia
“Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness”
Frank Gehry
“The study of suspension bridges formed for the last few years of my residence in Europe my favourite occupation … Let but a single bridge of the kind be put up in Philadelphia, exhibiting all the beautiful forms of the system to full advantage, and it needs no prophecy to foretell the effect which the novel and useful features will produce upon the intelligent minds of the Americans.”
John A. Roebling
“The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
“Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.”
Daniel Burnham
“Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably will not themselves be realized.”
Daniel Burnham
“Less is more.”
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
“Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in light.”
Le Corbusier
Hancock and Wilis Towers Burj Khalifa Inland Steel Building Lever House? Gin Mao Building, Shanghai 7 World Trade Centre
Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris
Le Corbusier
Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer and one of the pioneers of modern architecture
Le Corbusier
He believed all people should have the opportunity to live as beautifully and peacefully as the monks in the sanctuaries of the Charterhouse of the Valley of Ema
Le Corbusier
Created Immuebles Villas (1922) as a response to the growing Parisian slums
Le Corbusier
“A great building must begin with the immeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.”
Louis Kahn
