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FAMOUS ARCHITECT DICTUMS “ WE ARE CALLED TO BE ARCHITECTS OF THE FUTURE, NOT ITS “ARCHITECTURE MUST MEET 3 REQUIREMENTS: VICTIMS.” “ FORM EVER FOLLOWS FUNCTION.” -RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER -LOUIS HEN...

FAMOUS ARCHITECT DICTUMS “ WE ARE CALLED TO BE ARCHITECTS OF THE FUTURE, NOT ITS “ARCHITECTURE MUST MEET 3 REQUIREMENTS: VICTIMS.” “ FORM EVER FOLLOWS FUNCTION.” -RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER -LOUIS HENRY SULLIVAN “ DOING MORE WITH LESS.” “ OUR ARCHITECTURE REFLECTS TRULY AS A MIRROR.” -RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER -LOUIS HENRI SULLIVAN "WHEN I AM WORKING ON A PROBLEM, I NEVER THINK ABOUT "THE ARCHITECT WHO COMBINES IN HIS BEING THE POWERS BEAUTY... BUT WHEN I HAVE FINISHED, IF THE SOLUTION IS OF VISION, OF IMAGINATION, OF INTELLECT, OF SYMPATHY NOT BEAUTIFUL, I KNOW IT IS WRONG" WITH HUMAN NEED AND THE POWER TO INTERPRET THEM IN A -BUCKMINSTER FULLER LANGUAGE VERNACULAR AND TIME--- IS HE WHO SHALL CREATE POEMS IN STONE." "MAKE BIG PLANS; AIM HIGH IN HOPE AND WORK, - LOUIS SULLIVAN REMEMBERING THAT A NOBLE, LOGICAL DIAGRAM ONCE RECORDED WILL NOT DIE" “FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION” -DANIEL BURNHAM - LOUIS SULLIVAN "MAKE NO LITTLE PLANS; THEY HAVE NO MAGIC TO STIR MEN'S "FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION- THAT HAS BEEN BLOOD" MISUNDERSTOOD. FORM AND FUNCTION SHOULD BE ONE, -DANIEL BURNHAM JOINED IN A SPIRITUAL UNION" -FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT “FORM DOES NOT NECESSARILY FOLLOW FUNCTION” - ANTONIO GAUDI “ARCHITECTURE IS ORGANIC” - FRANK LLYOD WRIGHT “ THOSE WHO LOOK FOR THE LAWS OF NATURE AS A SUPPORT FOR THEIR NEW WORKS COLLABORATE WITH THE CREATOR.” “ THE THING ALWAYS HAPPENS THAT YOU REALLY BELIEVE IN; -ANONIO GAUDI AND THE BELIEF IN A THING MAKES IT HAPPEN.” -FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT "ARCHITECTURE IS THE REACHING OUT FOR THE TRUTH" -LOUIS KAHN “ A DOCTOR CAN BURY HIS MISTAKES BUT AN ARCHITECT CAN ONLY ADVISE HIS CLIENT TO PLANT VINES.” “A HOUSE IS A HOUSE” -FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT - LOUIS KAHN “ THE GOOD BUILDING IS NOT ONE THAT HURTS THE “A BRIDGE IS LIKE A HOUSE” LANDSCAPE, BUT ONE WHICH MAKES THE LANDSCAPE MORE - ROBERT MAILLART BEAUTIFUL THAN IT WAS BEFORE THE BUILDING WAS BUILT.” -FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT “FUNCTION INFLUENCE BUT DOES NOT DICTATE FORM” - EERO SAARINEN "ARCHITECTURE IS THE TRIUMPH OF HUMAN IMAGINATION OVER MATERIALS, METHODS, AND MEN, TO PUT MAN INTO “ARCHITECTURAL-FORM EQUALS SOCIAL-FORM” POSSESSION OF HIS OWN EARTH" -ELIEL SAARINEN -FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT "ALL ARCHITECTS WANT TO LIVE BEYOND THEIR DEATHS" “ AN ARCHITECT’S MOST USEFUL TOOLS ARE AN ERASER AT -PHILIP JOHNSON THE DRAFTING BOARD, AND A WRECKING BAR AT THE SITE.” -FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT “GOD IS IN THE DETAILS” -LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE "EVERY GREAT ARCHITECT IS- NECESSARILY - A GREAT POET. HE MUST BE A GREAT ORIGINAL INTERPRETER OF HIS TIME, “ ARCHITECTURE STARTS WHEN YOU CAREFULLY PUT TWO HIS DAY, HIS AGE" BRICKS TOGETHER. THERE IT BEGINS.” -FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT -LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE “ALL FINE ARCHITECTURAL VALUES ARE HUMAN VALES, ELSE "ARCHITECTURE IS THE WILL OF AN EPOCH TRANSLATED INTO NOT VALUABLE.” SPACE" -FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT -LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE “ I KNOW THE PRICE OF SUCCESS: DEDICATION, HARD WORK "ARCHITECTURE STARTS WHEN YOU CAREFULLY PUT TWO AND AN UNREMITTING DEVOTION TO THE THINGS YOU WANT BRICKS TOGETHER. THERE IT BEGINS" TO SEE HAPPEN.” -LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE -FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT “LESS IS MORE.” “ A MODERN, HARMONIC AND LIVELY ARCHITECTURE IS THE -LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE VISIBLE SIGN OF AN AUTHENTIC DEMOCRACY.” -WALTER GROPIUS "LESS IS A BORE" -ROBERT VENTURI “ A HARMONIOUS DESIGN REQUIRES THAT NOTHING BE ADDED OR TAKEN AWAY. “MORE IS MORE.” MARCUS VITRUVIUS POLLIO -ROBERT VENTURI “ ARCHITECTURE IS A SCIENCE ARISING OUT OF MANY OTHER “FORMS ACCOMMODATES FUNCTION’ SCIENCES, AND ADORNED WITH MUCH AND VARIED LEARNING; -ROBERT VENTURI BY THE HELP OF WHICH A JUDGMENT IS FORMED OF THOSE WORKS WHICH ARE THE RESULT OF OTHER ARTS.” "TAKE CARE OF THE LUXURIES - MARCUS VITRUVIUS POLLIO AND THE NECESSITIES WILL TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES" -LE CORBUSIER STRENGTH, BEAUTY, AND UNITY” -MARCUS VITRUVIUS POLLIO "I PREFER DRAWING TO TALKING. DRAWING IS FASTER, AND LEAVES LESS ROOM FOR LIES" “ ALL ARCHITECTURE IS SHELTER, ALL GREAT ARCHITECTURE -LE CORBUSIER IS THE DESIGN OF SPACE THAT CONTAINS, CUDDLES, EXALTS, OR STIMULATES THE PERSONS IN THAT SPACE.” "SPACE AND LIGHT AND ORDER. THOSE ARE THE THINGS THAT -PHILIP JOHNSON MEN NEED JUST AS MUCH AS THEY NEED BREAD OR A PLACE TO SLEEP" “ ARCHITECTURE IS THE ART OF HOW TO WASTE SPACE.” -LE CORBUSIER -PHILIP JOHNSON "THE HOME SHOULD BE THE TREASURE CHEST OF LIVING" “ ALL ARCHITECTS WANT TO LIVE BEYOND THEIR DEATHS.” LE CORBUSIER -PHILIP JOHNSON "ARCHITECTURE IS THE LEARNED GAME, CORRECT AND “ ARCHITECTS TODAY TEND TO DEPRECIATE THEMSELVES, TO MAGNIFICANT, OF FORMS ASSEMBLED IN THE LIGHT" REGARD THEMSELVES AS NO MORE THAN JUST ORDINARY -LE CORBUSIER CITIZENS WITHOUT THE POWER TO REFORM THE FUTURE.” -KENZO TANGE “CUBE WITHIN A CUBE” - LE CORBUSIER “MODERN ARCHITECTURE NEED NOT TO BE WESTERN” - KENZO TANGE "THE HOUSE IS A MACHINE FOR LIVING IN" - LE CORBUSIER “THE CITY MUST BE SUBJECT TO GROWTH, DECAY AND RENEWAL” “ ARCHITECTURE IS THE LEARNED GAME, CORRECT AND -KENZO TANGE MAGNIFICENT, OF FORMS ASSEMBLED IN THE LIGHT.” -LE CORBUSIER “I BELIEVE THAT THE WAY PEOPLE LIVE CAN BE DIRECTED A LITTLE BY ARCHITECTURE.” “ TO CREATE ARCHITECTURE IS TO PUT IN ORDER. PUT WHAT -TADAO ANDO IN ORDER? FUNCTION AND OBJECTS.” -LE CORBUSIER “ I WOULD LIKE MY ARCHITECTURE TO INSPIRE PEOPLE TO USE THEIR OWN RESOURCES, TO MOVE INTO THE FUTURE.” “ IT’S VERY ATMOSPHERIC. IT’S NOT A BUILDING THAT IS A -TADAO ANDO SEVERE STATEMENT IN THE SKYLINE. WE NEED THE HEIGHT; OTHERWISE, THE BUILDING ALMOST DISAPPEARS BECAUSE IT “ I HOPE THAT AMERICA AS A WHOLE, AND ESPECIALLY ITS IS SO SLENDER.” ARCHITECTS, WILL BECOME MORE SERIOUSLY INVOLVED IN -SANTIAGO CALATRAVA PRODUCING A NEW ARCHITECTURAL CULTURE THAT WOULD BRING THE NATION TO THE APEX – WHERE IT HAS STOOD “ART AND ARCHITECTURE, THE NEW UNITY” BEFORE – AND LEAD THE WORLD.” - WALTER GROPIUS -TADAO ANDO “ ARCHITECTURE BEGINS WHERE ENGINEERING ENDS.” “THAT ABSTRACT FORMS, DERIVED FROM TECHNOLOGY AND -WALTER GROPIUS FUNCTION, CAN BE USED SENSITIVELY IN EVERYDAY COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS, LARGE URBAN SCHEMES, AND “ A MODERN, HARMONIC AND LIVELY ARCHITECTURE IS THE MONUMENTS.” VISIBLE SIGN OF AN AUTHENTIC DEMOCRACY.” -IOH MING PEI -WALTER GROPIUS "IT IS NOT AN INDIVIDUAL ACT, ARCHITECTURE. YOU HAVE TO "THE PURPOSE OF ARCHITECTURE IS TO SHELTER AND CONSIDER YOUR CLIENT. ONLY OUT OF THAT CAN YOU ENHANCE MAN'S LIFE ON EARTH AND TO FULFILL HIS BELIEF IN PRODUCE GREAT ARCHITECTURE. YOU CANNOT WORK IN THE THE NOBILITY OF HIS EXISTENCE" ABSTRACT" -EERO SAARINEN -IOH MING PEI "TO ME, THE DRAWN LANGUAGE IS A VERY REVEALING “ AN IMPORTANT WORK OF ARCHITECTURE WILL CREATE LANGUAGE, ONE CAN SEE IN A FEW LINES WHETHER A MAN IS POLEMICS.” REALLY AN ARCHITECT" -RICHARD MEIER -EERO SAARINEN “ MY PASSION AND GREAT ENJOYMENT FOR ARCHITECTURE, “ NOTHING IS AS DANGEROUS IN ARCHITECTURE AS DEALING AND THE REASON THE OLDER I GET THE MORE I ENJOY IT, IS WITH SEPARATED PROBLEMS. IF WE SPLIT LIFE INTO BECAUSE I BELIEVE WE – ARCHITECTS – CAN EFFECT THE SEPARATED PROBLEMS WE SPLIT THE POSSIBILITIES TO MAKE QUALITY OF LIFE OF THE PEOPLE.” GOOD BUILDING ART.” -RICHARD ROGERS -ALVAR AALTO “ I THINK MY BEST SKILL AS AN ARCHITECT IS THE “ ARCHITECTURE HAS RECORDED THE GREAT IDEAS OF THE ACHIEVEMENT OF HAND-TO-EYE COORDINATION. I AM ABLE TO HUMAN RACE. NOT ONLY EVERY RELIGIOUS SYMBOL, BUT TRANSFER A SKETCH INTO A MODEL INTO THE BUILDING.” EVERY HUMAN THOUGHT HAS ITS PAGE IN THAT VAST BOOK.” -FRANK GEHRY -VICTOR HUGO “ ARCHITECTURE SHOULD SPEAK OF ITS TIME AND PLACE, BUT “ ARCHITECTURE IS A ART WHEN ONE CONSCIOUSLY OR YEARN FOR TIMELESSNESS.” UNCONSCIOUSLY CREATES AESTHETIC EMOTION IN THE -FRANK GEHRY ATMOSPHERE AND WHEN THIS ENVIRONMENT PRODUCES WELL BEING.” “ IN ANY ARCHITECTURE, THERE IS AN EQUITY BETWEEN THE -LUIS BARRAGAN PRAGMATIC FUNCTION AND THE SYMBOLIC FUNCTION.” -MICHAEL GRAVES “ IT IS ESSENTIAL TO AN ARCHITECT TO KNOW HOW TO SEE: I MEAN, TO SEE IN SUCH A WAY THAT THE VISION IS NOT “ ESCAPE FROM THE ARCHITECTURE GHETTO IS ONE OF THE OVERPOWERED BY RATIONAL ANALYSIS.” MAJOR DRIVERS AND HAS BEEN FROM THE VERY BEGINNING.” -LUIS BARRAGAN -REM KOOLHAAS “ DOES IT FOLLOW THAT THE HOUSE HAS NOTHING IN “ NOT MANY ARCHITECTS HAVE THE LUXURY TO REJECT COMMON WITH ART AND IS ARCHITECTURE NOT TO BE SIGNIFICANT THINGS.” INCLUDED IN THE ARTS? ONLY A VERY SMALL PART OF -REM KOOLHAAS ARCHITECTURE BELONGS TO ART: THE TOMB AND THE MONUMENT. EVERYTHING ELSE THAT FULFILS A FUNCTION IS “PEOPLE CAN INHABIT ANYTHING. AND THEY CAN BE TO BE EXCLUDED FROM THE DOMAIN OF ART.” MISERABLE IN ANYTHING AND ECSTATIC IN ANYTHING. MORE -ADOLF LOOS AND MORE I THINK THAT ARCHITECTURE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. OF COURSE, THAT’S BOTH LIBERATING AND “ ARCHITECTURE AROUSES SENTIMENTS IN MAN. THE ALARMING.” ARCHITECT’S TASK THEREFORE, IS TO MAKE THOSE -REM KOOLHAAS SENTIMENTS MORE PRECISE.” -ADOLF LOOS “ ANY ARCHITECTURAL PROJECT WE DO TAKES AT LEAST FOUR OR FIVE YEARS, SO INCREASINGLY THERE IS A “ EACH NEW SITUATION REQUIRES A NEW ARCHITECTURE.” DISCREPANCY BETWEEN THE ACCELERATION OF CULTURE -JEAN NOUVEL AND THE CONTINUING SLOWNESS OF ARCHITECTURE.” -REM KOOLHAAS “ TO PROVIDE MEANINGFUL ARCHITECTURE IS NOT TO PARODY HISTORY BUT TO ARTICULATE IT.” “ ALWAYS DESIGN A THING BY CONSIDERING IT IN ITS NEXT -DANIEL LIBESKIND LARGER CONTEXT – A CHAIR IN A ROOM, A ROOM IN A HOUSE, A HOUSE IN AN ENVIRONMENT, AN ENVIRONMENT IN A CITY “ IT IS INSUFFICIENT FOR ARCHITECTURE TODAY TO DIRECTLY PLAN.” IMPLEMENT AN EXISTING BUILDING TYPOLOGY; IT INSTEAD -ELIEL SAARINEN REQUIRES ARCHITECTS TO CAREFULLY EXAMINE THE WHOLE AREA WITH NEW INTERVENTIONS AND PROGRAMMATIC “ARCHITECTURAL-FORM EQUALS SOCIAL-FORM.” TYPOLOGIES.” -ELIEL SAARINEN -ZAHA HADID “FUNCTION INFLUENCE BUT DOES NOT DICTATE FORM” - EERO SAARINEN