12 ARCHITECTS OF ST.

PETER’S BASILICA

1. DONATO BRAMANTE GREEK CROSS WITH A DOME SIMILAR TO PANTHEON

2. GUILIANO DA SANGALLO
3. FRA GIOCONDO
4. RAPHAEL SANZIO LATIN CROSS PLAN
5. BALDASSARE PERUZZI REVERTED TO GREEK PLAN
6. ANTONIO SANGALLO
7. MICHAELANGELO BUONAROTTI DOME
8. GIACOMO DELLA PORTA
9. DOMENICO FONTANA COMPETED DOME IN 1590
10. DIACOMO DA VIGNOLA ADDED SIDE CUPOLA
11. CARLO MADERNA LENGTHENED NAVE TO FORM LATIN CROSS
GIGANTIC FACADE
12. GIAN LORENZO BERNINI BALDACHINO
ERECTED NOBLE ENTRANCE PIAZZA (198 WIDE)
COMPLETED PLAN IN A LATIN CROSS

FAMOUS QUOTATIONS OF FAMOUS ARCHITECTS

  “God is in the details.”   – Mies van der Rohe

  “Forms follows function.”  –  Louis Sullivan

  “Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.”  –  Charles Eames

  “Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.”   – Le Corbusier

“An idea is salvation by imagination.”   – Frank Lloyd Wright

  “Less is more.”   – Mies van der Rohe

  “Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.”  –  Rem Koolhaus

“A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.”   – Frank Lloyd Wright

  “Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.”  –  Frank Gehry

“When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. But when I’ve finished, if the solution is not beautiful
I know it’s wrong.” – Buckminster Fuller

“As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially
unknown.” – Norman Foster
  “To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.” – Daniel Libeskind

  “To create, one must first question everything.” – Eileen Gray

  “Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space… On the one hand it’s
about shelter, but it’s also about pleasure.” – Zaha Hadid

  “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” –  Leonardo da Vinci

“There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?” – Zaha Hadid

  “I don’t know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.” –  Frank Gehry

“One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.” –  Renzo Piano