Dictums of Famous Architects:
Architects
Dictums
SULLIVAN, LOUIS
“Form follows function.”
GAUDI, ANTONIO
“Form does not necessarily follow function.”
WRIGHT, FRANK LLOYD
“Form follows functionfunction - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.” “Every great architect is – necessarily– necessarily- a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.”
GROPUIS, WALTER
“Art and Architecture, the new unity.”
KAHN, LOUIS
“Architecture is the reaching out for the truth” “A house is a house.”
MAILLART, ROBERT (February 6, 1872 – April April 5, 1940)
“A bridge is like a house.”
BURNHAM, DANIEL
“Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.” “Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood.”
SAARINEN, ELIEL
Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen (August 20, 1873 – July July 1, 1950)
“Beauty grows from necessity not from repetition of formulas.” “
Architectural-form equals social-form.” social- form.”
SAARINEN, EERO (August 20, 1910 – September September 1, 1961)
“Function influence but does not dictate form.”
PERRET, AUGUSTE
“Truth is indispensible to Architecture &
(February 12, 1874 - February 25, 1954)
architectural lie concepts.”
NIEMEYER, OSCAR
“Form follows beauty.”
Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho
“Architecture is invention.”
(December 15, 1907 – December December 5, 2012) NERVI, PIER LUIGI (June 21, 1891 – January January 9, 1979)
“Structural “Structural correctness, which is identical with functional, technical & economic is a necessary & sufficient condition of satisfactory aesthetic result.”
LUDWIG, MIES VAN DER ROHE
“Less is more.”
(March 27, 1886 – August August 19, 1969)
“Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.”
Maria Ludwig Michael Mies
“Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.” MENDELSOHN, ERICH (March 21, 1887 – September September 15, 1953)
“Architecture seizes upon space, encompasses encompasses space and is space itself.” “Architecture depends on the sensuous seizure by means of touch and sight.”
LOOS , ADOLF (December 10, 1870 – August August 23, 1933)
“Supply and demand regulate architecture form”
LE CORBUSIER
“The house is a Machine to live in.”
(October 6, 1887 – August August 27, 1965)
“Cube within a cube.”
LATROBE , BENJAMIN H. (May 1, 1764 – September September 3, 1820)
“A bldg. is the combination of different geometric figures.”
JOHNSON, PHILIP CORTELYOU (July 8, 1906 – January January 25, 2005)
“Architecture is the art of how to waste space ”
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris
“All architects want to live beyond their deaths.” GROPIUS, WALTER (May 18, 1883 – July July 5, 1969)
“Architecture begins where engineering ends”
BREUER, MARCEL LAJOS
“A Building has straight geometrical lines.
(May 21, 1902 – July July 1, 1981)
Even when these lines are free, it must always be evident that they have been studied & that they did not spring up simultaneously.” “Nature & Architecture are two different things.” “Architecture is a social art.”
POCIO, MARCUS VITRUVIUS
“Architecture must meet 3 requirements: strength, beauty, and unity.”
