4/19/2016Dictums of Famous Architects | Architecture is fun! Architects Dictums SULLIVAN, LOUIS “Form follows function.” GAUDI, ANTONIO “Form does not necessarily follow function.” WRIGHT, FRANK LLOYD “Form follows function that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.” “Every great architect is –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 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 “Beauty grows from necessity not from repetition of formulas.” (August 20, 1873 – July 1, 1950) “Architecturalform equals socialform.” SAARINEN, EERO (August 20, 1910 – September 1, 1961) “Function influence but does not dictate form.” PERRET, AUGUSTE (February 12, 1874 February 25, 1954) “Truth is indispensible to Architecture & architectural lie concepts.” NIEMEYER, OSCAR Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho (December 15, 1907 – December 5, 2012) “Form follows beauty.” NERVI, PIER LUIGI (June 21, 1891 – January 9, 1979) “Structural correctness, which is identical with functional, technical & economic is a “Architecture is invention.” http://reviewarchitecture2014.blogspot.com/2014/03/dictumsoffamousarchitects.html 1/2 1981) “A Building has straight geometrical lines. 1820) “A bldg. 1887 – August 27. ADOLF (December 10. 1886 – August 19. WALTER (May 18. 1933) “Supply and demand regulate architecture form” LE CORBUSIER CharlesÉdouard JeanneretGris (October 6. Even when these lines are free. encompasses space and is space itself. 1906 – January 25. 1969) “Architecture ends” begins where engineering BREUER.” LOOS . 1965) “The house is a Machine to live in. beauty. MIES VAN DER ROHE Maria Ludwig Michael Mies (March 27. and unity.com/2014/03/dictumsoffamousarchitects. 1953) “Architecture seizes upon space. ERICH (March 21. BENJAMIN H.” http://reviewarchitecture2014.” “All architects want to live beyond their deaths.” “Architecture is a social art. MARCUS VITRUVIUS “Architecture must meet 3 requirements: strength.” MENDELSOHN. 1902 – July 1.blogspot. 1764 – September 3.” POCIO. PHILIP CORTELYOU (July 8. There it begins.” “Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together.” LATROBE . 1870 – August 23. 1883 – July 5. 1887 – September 15.” “Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.” LUDWIG.html 2/2 .” “Nature & Architecture are two different things. 2005) “Architecture is the art of how to waste space ” “Cube within a cube. (May 1.” JOHNSON.” “Architecture depends on the sensuous seizure by means of touch and sight. 1969) “Less is more. it must always be evident that they have been studied & that they did not spring up simultaneously.4/19/2016 Dictums of Famous Architects | Architecture is fun! necessary & sufficient condition of satisfactory aesthetic result.” GROPIUS. MARCEL LAJOS (May 21. is the combination of different geometric figures.