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Form ever Follows Function

Louis Henry Sullivan

our architecture REFLECTS truly as a MIRROR

Louis Henry Sullivan

the architect who combines in his being the POWERS of VISION, of IMAGINATION, of INTELLECT, of SYMPHATY with HUMAN NEED, and the POWER to INTERPRET them in a language vernacular in time - is he who shall CREATE POEMS IN STONE

Louis Henry Sullivan

architecture is ORGANIC

Frank Llyod Wright

FORM and FUNCTION should be ONE, joined in SPIRITUAL UNION

Frank Llyod Wright

THING ALWAYS HAPPEN that you really BELIEVE in; and the BELIEF IN A THING MAKES IT HAPPEN

Frank Lloyd Wright

ARCHITECT can only ADVISE his client to PLANT VINES

Frank Llyod Wright

GOOD BUILDING makes the LANDSCAPE more BEAUTIFUL than it was before the building was built

Frank Llyod Wright

ARCHITECTURE IS THE TRIUMPH of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth

Frank Llyod Wright

DOING MORE with LESS

Richard Buckminster Fuller

if the SOLUTION is NOT BEAUTIFUL, I know its WRONG

Richard Buckminster Fuller

MAKE BIG PLANS; a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die

Daniel Burnham

MAKE NO LITTLE PLANS; they have NO MAGIC to STIR MEN'S BLOOD

Daniel Burnham

an architects MOST USEFUL TOOLS are an ERASER at the drafting board, and a WRECKING BAR at the site

Frank Llyod Wright

every great architect is-necessarily- A GREAT POET. he must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

Frank Llyod Wright

all FINE ARCHITECTURAL values are HUMAN VALES, else not VALUABLE

Frank Llyod Wright

i know the PRICE OF SUCCESS; dedication, hard work and a unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen

Frank Llyod Wright

FORM does NOT necessarily FOLLOW FUNCTION

Antonio Gaudi

those who look for LAWS OF NATURE AS A SUPPORT for their new works COLLABORATE WITH THE CREATOR

Antonio Gaudi

architecture is the REACHING OUT FOR THE TRUTH

Louis Kahn

a HOUSE IS A HOUSE

Louis Kahn

a BRIDGE IS LIKE A HOUSE

Robert Maillart

LESS IS BORE

Robert Venturi

FORMS ACCOMODATES FUNCTION

Robert Venturi

ARCHITECTURAL FORM = SOCIAL FORM

Eliel Saarinen

FUNCTION INFLUECE but does NOT DICTATE FORM

Eero Saarinen

beauty grows from necessity NOT FROM REPETITION OF FORMULAS

Eliel Saarinen

GOD IS IN DETAILS

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

architecture starts when you carefully PUT TWO BRICKS TOGETHER. there it begis

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

architecture is the WILL OF EPOCH translated into space

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

LESS IS MORE

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

CUBE WITHIN A CUBE

Le Corbusier

the HOUSE IS A MACHINE FOR LIVING IN

Le Corbusier

i prefer drawing to talking. DRAWING IS FASTER, and LEAVES LESS ROOM FOR LIES

Le Corbusier

the home should be the TREASURE CHEST OF LIVING

Le Corbusier

to create architecture is TO PUT ORDER, put what in order? FUNCTION AND OBJECTS

Le Corbusier

architecture is the LEARNED GAME, correct and magnificent, of FORMS ASSEMBLED in the LIGHT

Le Corbusier

modern architecture need NOT TO BE WESTERN

Kenzo Tange

art and architecture, THE NEW UNITY

Walter Gropius

achitecture begins where ENGINEERING ENDS

Walter Gropius

architecture is the ART OF HOW TO WASTE SPACE

Philip Johnson

all architects WANT TO LIVE THEIR DEATHS

Philip Johnson

the CITY must be subjected to GROWTH, DECAY, and RENEWAL

Kenzo Tange

STRENGTH, BEAUTY, and UNITY

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

i believe that the way people live can be DIRECTED a little by ARCHITECTURE

Tadao Ando

architecture should speak of its TIME and PLACE, but yearn for TIMELESSNESS

Frank Gehry

each NEW SITUATION requires a NEW ARCHITECTURE

Jean Nouvel

an important work of ARCHITECTURE will CREATE POLEMICS

Richard Meier

architecture is a SOCIAL ART

Marcel Lajos Breuer

NATURE and ARCHITECTURE are two different things

Marcel Lajos Breuer

a building is the COMBINATION of different GEOMETRIC FIGURES

Benjamin H. Latrobe

FORM FOLLOWS BEAUTY

Oscar Niemeyer

architecture is INVENTION

Oscar Niemeyer

architecture SEIZES UPON SPACE, ENCOMPASSES SPACE and IS SPACE ITSELF

Erich Mendelson

architecture DEPENDS ON THE SENSOUS SEIZURE by means of TOUCH AND SIGHT

Erich Mendelson

TRUTH IS INDISPENSIBLE to architecture and ARCHITECTURE LIE CONCEPTS

Auguste Perret

to provide meaningful architecture is NOT TO PARODY HISTORY BUT TO ARTICULATE IT

Daniel Libeskind

a BUILDING HAS STRAIGHT GEOMETRICAL LINES. even when these lines are free, it must always be evident that they have been studied and that they did not spring up simultaneously

Marcel Lajos Breuer

STRUCTURAL CORRECTNESS, which is identical with functional, technical and economic is a necesaary and sufficient condition of satisfactory aesthetic result

Pier Luigi Nervi

it is insufficient for architecture today to directly implement an existing building typology; it is instead requires ARCHITECTS TO FULLY EXAMINE THE WHOLE AREA with NEW INTERVENTION and PROGRAMATIC TYPOLOGIES

Zaha Hadid

take care of the LUXURIES and the NECESSITIES WILL TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES

Le Corbusier

SPACE AND LIGHT AND ORDER. those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep

Le Corbusier

its very atmospheric. ITS NOT A BUILDING THAT A SEVERE STATEMENT IN THE SKYLINE. we need HEIGHT, otherwise, the building almost disappears because it is so slender

Santiago Calatrava

architects today tend to DEPRECIATE THEMSELVES, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future

Kenzo Tange

a modern, harmonic and lively architecture is THE VISIBLE SIGN OF AN AUTHENTIC DEMOCRACY

Walter Gropius

a HARMONIOUS DESIGN requires that nothing be added or taken away

Marcus Vitruvious Pollio

architecture is a SCIENCE ARISING OUT OF MANY OTHER SCIENCES, and adorned with much and varies learning; by the help of which a judgement is formed of those works which are the result of other arts

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. IF WE SPLIT LIFE INTO SEPARATED PROBLEMS, WE SPLIT POSSIBILITIES TO MAKE GOOD BUILDING ART

Alvar Aalto

architecture has recorded the GREAT IDEAS OF HUMAN RACE. not only every religios symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book

Victor Hugo

in any architecture, there is an EQUITY between the PRAGMATIC FUNCTION and the SYMBOLIC FUNCTION

Michael Graves

NOT MANY architects have the LUXURY TO REJECT SIGNIFICANT THINGS

Rem Koolhaas

ESCAPE FROM THE ARCHITECTURE GHETTO is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning

Rem Koolhaas

PEOPLE CAN INHABIT ANYTHING, MISERABLE IN ANYTHING, and ECSTATIC IN ANYTHING. more and more i think that architecture has nothing to do with it. of course, thats both liberating and alarming

Rem Koolhaas

any architectural project we do takes atleast 4-5 years, so increasingly, there is a DISCREPANCY between THE ACCELERATION OF CULTURE and the CONTINUING SLOWNESS OF ARCHITECTURE

Rem Koolhaas

ALWAYS DESIGN A THING BY CONSIDERING IT IN ITS NEXT LARGER CONTEXT - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan

Eliel Saarinen

SUPPLY AND DEMAND regulate architecture form

Adolf Loos

TOMB AND MONUMENT. everything else that FULFILLS A FUNCTION is to be EXCLUDED from the DOMAIN OF ART

Adolf Loos

to me, DRAWN LANGUAGE IS A VERY REVEALING LANGUAGE, one can see in a few lines whether a man us really an architect

Eero Saarinen

architecture AROUSES SENTIMENTS IN MAN. the architects task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise

Adolf Loos

it is essential to an architect to know HOW TO SEE: i mean, to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis

Luis Barragan

architecture is a ART when one consciously or unconsciously CREATES AESTHETIC EMOTION IN THE ATMOSPHERE and when this environment produces well being

Luis Barragan

the purpose of architecture is to SHELTER AND ENHANCE MANS LIFE on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility if his existence

Eero Saarinen

ALL ARCHITECTURE IS SHELTER, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, CUDDLES, EXALTS, or STIMULATES the person in that space

Philip Johnson

my passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older i get the more i enjoy it, is because i believe we - ARCHITECTS - CAN EFFECT THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF THE PEOPLE

Richard Rogers

i would like my architecture to INSPIRE PEOPLE TO USE THEIR OWN RESOURCES, TO MOVE INTO THE FUTURE

Tadao Ando

that abstract forms, derived from TECHNOLOGY AND FUNCTION, can be used sensitively in everyday COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS, LARGE URBAN SCHEMES, and MONUMENTS

Ioh Ming Pei

i think my best skills as an architect is the ACHIEVEMENT OF HAND-to-EYE COORDINATION. i am able to transfer a sketch into a model into building

Frank Gehry

it is not an individual act, architecture. YOU HAVE TO CONSIDER YOUR CLIENT. only OUT OF THAT CAN YOU PRODUCE GREAT ARCHITECTURE. you cannot work in the abstract

Ioh Ming Pei

i hope that america as a whole, and especially its architects, will become more seriously involved in producing A NEW ARCHITECTURAL CULTURE that would bring the nation to the apex - where it has stood before - and lead the world

Tadao Ando

there are 360 degrees, why stick to one

Zaha Hadid

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