Architects Dictums

SULLIVAN, LOUIS “Form follows function.”

GAUDI, ANTONIO “Form does not necessarily follow function.”

“Straight lines belong to man, curved lines belong to God"

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.”

“The house is a machine for living in”

"Architecture built not for need, but for art"

MAILLART, ROBERT “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 “Beauty grows from necessity not from repetition of formulas.”
Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen
“Architectural-form equals social-form.”

SAARINEN, EERO “Function influence but does not dictate form.”

"Spiritual function is inseparable from practical function"

PERRET, AUGUSTE “Truth is indispensible to Architecture & architectural lie concepts.”

NIEMEYER, OSCAR “Form follows beauty.”

Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida
Niemeyer Soares Filho “Architecture is invention.”

NERVI, PIER LUIGI “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.”

Maria Ludwig Michael Mies
“Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.”

“Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.”

MENDELSOHN, ERICH “Architecture seizes upon space, encompasses space and is space itself.”

“Architecture depends on the sensuous seizure by means of touch and sight.”

LOOS , ADOLF “Supply and demand regulate architecture form”

"Ornament equals crime"

 "Lift the building in the ground"

LE CORBUSIER “The house is a Machine to live in.”

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris
“Cube within a cube.”

LATROBE , BENJAMIN H. “A bldg. is the combination of different geometric figures.”

JOHNSON, PHILIP CORTELYOU “Architecture is the art of how to waste space ”

“All architects want to live beyond their deaths.”

GROPIUS, WALTER “Architecture begins where engineering ends”

"Art and architecture, the new unity"

"Machine is to be our modern medium of design”

BREUER, MARCEL LAJOS “A Building has straight geometrical lines. 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.”

VENTURI, ROBERT "Less is Bore"

ROGERS, RICHARD "Design is how, form is what"

WAGNER, OTTO "Nothing that is not practical can be beautiful"

 "Essential basis of natural forms as geometries"

GRAVES, MICHAEL "Design as if you are a child"

"Classical forms language of both the arctuated and trabeated models"

NIEMEYER, OSCAR "Architecture must have liberty of forms"

"Architecture is expression of poetry"

TANGE, KENZO "Modern architecture need not be western"

IEOH MING PEI "Symbolisms and blasphemies"

"architecture is the expression of the past"

NUESTRA, RICHARD "A house is like a flower pot"

"most important material is man"

MENDELSON, ERICH "Architecture is the only tangible expression of space"

AALTO, ALVAR "Form is the mystery that defies description but brings people pleasure"

BRUER MARCEL "Nature and architecture are two different things"

JOHNSON, PHILIP "Architecture is the art of wasting space"

POCIO, MARCUS VITRUVIUS “Architecture must meet 3 requirements: strength, beauty, and unity.”