Famous Architect Dictums

Architects dictum is a statement of opinion or belief of the person in designing building or structures.
Here are some famous architect dictums:

“Form follows function”

- Louis Sullivan

“Form does not necessarily follow function” - Antonio Gaudi

"Form follows function- that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union"
-Frank Lloyd Wright

“Art and Architecture, the new unity”

- Walter Gropius

"Architecture is the reaching out for the truth"

-Louis Kahn

“A house is a house”
- Louis Kahn

“Cube within a cube”

- Le Corbusier

"The house is a machine for living in"

- Le Corbusier

“A bridge is like a house”

- Robert Maillart

“Less is more”
- Ludwig Mies Van de Rohe

"Less is a bore"
-Robert Venturi

"Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space"

-Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

"Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins"
-Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

"Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that 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

“Function influence but does not dictate form”

- Eero Saarinen

“Architectural-form equals social-form”

-Eliel Saarinen

“Modern architecture need not to be Western”

- Kenzo Tange

"All architects want to live beyond their deaths"

-Philip Johnson

“Architecture must meet 3 requirements: strength, beauty, and unity”

- Marcus Vitruvius Pocio

"Every great architect is- necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age"
-Frank Lloyd Wright