DICTUMS
“A harmonious design requires that
nothing be added or taken away.”
“Firm, Commodity, Delight”
“A house is a machine for living in.”
“Architecture is the learned game, correct
and magnificent, of forms assembled in
the light.”
“I prefer drawing to talking drawing is
faster, and leaves less room for lies”
“Cube within a Cube.”
“Architecture is the masterly, correct, and
magnificent play of masses brought
together in light. Our eyes are made to see
forms in light: light and shade reveal these
forms.”
“Less is more.”
“Architecture is the will of an epoch
translated into space.”
“God is in the details.”
“Architecture is the will of an epoch
translated into space.”
“A chair is a very difficult object. A
skyscraper is almost easier. That is why
Chippendale is famous”
DESIGN/STRUCTURES/BLDG THE ARCHITECT/ARTIST
Firmitas, Utilitas, Venustas Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
(Durability, Usefulness, and Beauty) (Roman Architect)
wrote “De Architectura”–
10 books of Architecture
1. Landscape and Planning
2. Materials
3 & 4. Columns, Orders, &
Temples
5. Public Spaces
6. Private Houses
7. Finishes & Colors
8. Water
9. Astronomy
10. Mechanical Engineering
•Villa Savoye, Poissy (France) Le Corbusier
•Unite D’ Habitation, Marseille (Brutalism) (France) Charles Edouard Jeanneret-Gris
(Swiss-French Architect)
5 points of Architecture
1.Pilotis
2.Open Plan
3.Free Facade (Curtain Wall)
4.Ribbon Windows
5.Roof Garden
•Notre Dame Du Haut (France)
•La Ville Contemporaine
•National Museum of Western Art (Japan)
•Barcelona Pavilion (Barcelona Chair) (Spain) Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
•Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois “Skin & Bone” (German-American Architect)
•Seagram Building, NY (1958) (Skyscraper)
•S.R. Crown Hall, Illinois Institute of Technology
•Barcelona Pavilion “Germany Pavilion” (Barcelona Spain)
“Less is bore.” •Vanna Venturi House (Philadelphia) Robert Venturi
•Episcopal Academy Chapel (Newtown Square, “Pioneer of Postmodernism”
“More is more.” Pennsylvania) (American Architect)
(Author of “Complexity &
development in Architecture”)

•Children Museum of Houston

•Fire Station No.4 (the middle finger look like bldg)

•Guild House (Philadelphia)
“Yes, is more.” •Mountain Dwellings Bjarke Ingels

“Architecture is the art of how to waste
space.”
“Form follows form, Not function.”
•8 House
•Vancouver House
• Via 57 West (New York)
•The Glass House (New Canaan) (Connecticut) Philip Johnson
(Advocate International Style)
(Postmodernism Promoters)
(1st Pritzker Awardee 1979)

•At &T Building (New York)

•Crystal Cathedral
•Bank Of America
•Lipstick Building
“Form Follows Function.” •Chicago – Birth Place of Skyscraper Louis Sullivan
•Wainright Bldg., (St. Louis, Missouri) – 1st “Father of Skyscrapers”
Skyscraper (First Modern Architect)
(3 Levels: Base; Shaft; & Top
Floor)

•Prudential (Guaranty) Bldg, Buffalo, (NY)

•Carson Pirie Scott Department Store (Sullivan
Center) (Chicago)
•Auditorium Building (Chicago)
“The mother art is architecture. Without an •Praire House (Overhanging roofs & flowing forms) Frank Lloyd Wright
architecture of our own we have no soul of •Winslow house “the First prairie house” (River “The Greatest American
our own civilization.” Forest) Illinois) Architect of All time”
•Broadacre City (New York) (Promoter/Father of Organic
“An idea is salvation by imagination.” •Robie Architecture)
House
“Space is the breath of art.” (Chicago,
Illinois)
•Falling
“A great architect is not made by way of a
Water
brain nearly so much as he is made by way
of a cultivated, enriched heart.”
(Pennsylvania)
•Jhonson Wax Company Administration Center
“I Believe in God, Only I Spell It Nature.”
(Racine, Wisconsin)

“Every Great Architect Is Necessarily a

Great Poet (…)”

•Taliesin West (Racine, Wisconsin)

“We shape our buildings; thereafter they Winston Churchill
shape us.” (Not an Architect)

“The first principle of architectural beauty is •Eiffel Tower (1899) (Paris, France) Gustave Eiffel
that the essential lines of a construction be (French Civil Engineer)
determined by a perfect appropriateness (Best known for the World-
to its use.” famous Eiffel Tower) (metal
structural work & industrial
installations)
“When I am asked what I believe in, •Getty Museum (Los Angeles) Richard Meier
I say that I believe in architecture. •Church Of (American Abstract Artist)
Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like God the (Principle on pure geometry,
to believe that architecture connects the Merciful open space, and an emphasis
present with the past and the tangible with Father on light)
the intangible.

“A museum is a place where one should •Centre Pompidou (Paris) Renzo Piano
lose one’s head.” (W/ Richard Rogers, (Italian Architect)
Norman Foster) (High-tech Pioneered)
“Architecture is Art, but art vastly •The New York Time Bldg
contaminated by many other things. (Skyscraper) (Ny)
Contaminated in the best sense of the •Tower Shard (Skyscraper)
word-fed, fertilized by many things…” (London)
“The dialogue between client and architect
is about as intimate as any conversation
you can have, because when you’re talking
about building a house, you’re talking
about dreams.”
“As an architect you design for the present,
with an awareness of the past, for a future
which is essentially unknown.”
“Great Architect should wear its message
lightly”
“Architecture is an expression of values.”
“Architecture begins where engineering
ends.”
“We want to create the purely organic
building, boldly emanating its inner laws,
free of untruths or ornamentation”
“Our ultimate goal, therefore, was the
composite but inseparable work of art ---
the great building --- in which the old
dividing line between monumental and
decorative elements would have
disappeared forever.”
“Architecture should speak of its time and
place, but yearn for timelessness.”
“98% of what gets built today is shit.”
“When a Form Creates Beauty, It Becomes
Functional & Therefore Fundamental in
Architecture”
“My work is not about 'form follows
function’, but 'form follows beauty' or,
even better, 'form follows feminine.”
“In Architecture, the most important thing
is Astonishment.”
•15 Central Park West (New York) Robert A.M. Stern
•520 Park Avenue (New York) (New York based Architect)
(Founder partner Arch. Firm,
Robert A.M Stern Architects
“RAMSA”)
•Apple Park Headquarter Sir Norman Foster
(most Energy-Efficient Building on “The Hero of High-Tech”
Earth) (80% Landscape; Collab w/
Steve Jobs) (British Architect)
•London City Hall (1999 Pritzker (High-tech Pioneered)
Award)
•HSBC BUILDING (Hong
Kong) (earliest example of
High-Tech Architecture)
•30 ST. MARY AXE, “The
GHERKIN” (Skyscraper)
•Hearst Tower (Skyscraper)
(NY)
•Bauhauss Bldg (Germany) Walter Gropius
•Fagus Factory (Germany) (German Architect)
“Founder of Bauhaus”
“One of the Pioneers of Modern
Achitecture”
(International Style)
(Functionalism)
•Tower East (Ohio) (his last bldg)
•Foundation Louis Vuition (Paris) Frank Gehry
•New York The 88 Storey Skyscrapers (NY) (Canadian-American Architect)
•Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao, Spain) “Most important Architect of
Contemporary era & the Most
Famous living Architect”
•Walt Disney Concert Hall (LA, California)
•Dancing House “Ginger & Fred” (Czech Rep)
•8 Spruce Street “Beekman Tower” (NY)
•National Congress of Brazil Oscar Niemeyer
•Metropolitan Cathedral of our (Brazilian Architect)
Lady Aparecida / Cathedral of “King of Curves”
Brasilia
•Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao, Spain)
•Niteroi Contemporary Art Museum
(Rio de Janeiro) “flying saucer”
•Palacio da Alvorada Palace
“You cannot simply put something new
into a place. You have to absorb what you
see around you, what exists on the land,
and then use that knowledge along with
contemporary thinking to interpret what
you see.”
“Architecture is not based on concrete and
steel and the elements of the soil. It’s
based on wonder.”
“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.”
“Architecture arouses sentiments in man.
The architect’s task therefore, is to make
those sentiments more precise.”
“Supply and demand regulate architectural
form.”
“Architecture must have something that
appeals to the human heart, but even
them, basic forms spaces and appearance
must be logical…”
“Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot
be expected to last long.”
•Church of Light (Japan) Tadao Ando
(Japanese Architect)
style: Natural Lightning
•4x4 House (Japan)
•Suntory Museum of Art (Tokyo, Japan)
•Jewish Museum, Berlin – Largest Jewish Museum in Daniel Libeskind
Europe (Introducing complex ideas &
emotion)
•One World Trade Center, NYC – Tallest Skyscraper
in the Western Hemisphere
•Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto)
•Geodesic House - R. Buckminster Fuller and Anne Buckminster Fuller
Hewlett Dome Home (Japan) (American Architect)
• Dymaxion House Geodesic Dome
•Looshaus (Austria) Adolf Loos
•Villa Müller (Czech Rep) (Austrian Architect)
•St. Mary’s Cathedral (Tokyo, Japan) Kenzo Tange
•Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park (after WW2) (Japanese Architect)
One of the most significant
architects of the 20th century,
combining traditional Japanese
styles with modernism, and
designed major buildings on
five continents.
•Olympic Arena (Tokyo, Japan)
“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.”
“Recognizing the need is the primary
condition for design.”
“When we build, let us think that we build
forever.”
“The architecture we remember is that
which never consoles or comforts us.”
“The best Architecture was incongruous
and disharmonious.”
“To me the drawn language is a very
revealing language: one can see in a few
lines whether a man is really an architect.”
“The function influence but does not
dictate form.”
“The purpose of Architecture is to shelter
and enhance man’s life on earth and to
fulfill in the nobility in of his existence.”
•Vitra Fire Station Weil Am Rhein, Germany Zaha Hadid
•Heydar Aliyev Centre “Queen of the Curve”
•Galaxy SOHO (Beijing) “Greatest Female Arch’t”
•Morpheus Hotel Tower Bldg. 2004 PRITZKER Awardee
•Rosenthal Contemporary Arts Centre UK’s most Prestigious Award
Cincinnati – Pritzker Awarded (US’s 1st Museum the 2010-2011 STIRLING PRIZE
Designed by a Woman)
•Leeza SOHO or Li Ze tower
(194m twisting Atrium)
•St. Mary's Catholic Church Charles Eames
(Helena-West Helena, Arkansas) Eames Chair &Furniture
John Ruskin
English Writer
The Poetry of Architecture
The Seven Lamps of
Architecture: Sacrifice, Truth,
Power, Beauty, Life, Memory,
Obedience
•Wexner Center For the Arts (Ohio) Peter Eisenman
•City of Culture in Santiago de Compostela “One of New York 5”
•Dulles international airport Eero Saarinen
(Finnish-American Architect)
•Gateway Arch 630 ft. tall monument (United States)
•TWA Flight Center / Trans World Flight Center
(1962) (Post-Modern; 1st Airport to Introduce the
Concept of Separating Arrival & Departure Space)
“Always design a thing by considering it in •Helsinki Central Station (Finland) Eliel Saarinen
its next larger context – a chair in a room, (Finnish-American Architect)
a room in a house, a house in an
environment, an environment in a city
plan.”

“Architectural-form equals social-form.”

“Beauty groups from necessity not from

repetition of formulas.”
“A great building must begin with the
immeasurable, must go through
measurable means when it is being
designed, and in the end must be
unmeasured.”
•Phillips Exeter Academy Library, New Hampshire Louis Kahn
•Kimbell Art Museum Fort Worth, Texas (American architect)
•Richard Medical Research Building Pennsylvania
•Jariyo Sangshad Bhaban
•Kimbell Art Museum Christ Cathedral

“Design is not making beauty, beauty

emerges from selection, affinities,
integration, and love.”
•Salk Institute
“Architectural form should reflect a bldg.’s
social purpose.”

“Even a brick wants to be something.”

“An architect can build a house and build a

city in the same breath, if he thinks about it
as being a marvelous, inspired, expressive
real.”
“The essential element in architecture is the
manipulation of space. It is this essence
which separates it from all other arts.”
•Orange County Government Center Goshen, New York Paul Rudolph
known for his use of concrete &
highly complex floor plans
(chair of Yale University's
Department of Architecture for
6 years)

“KILL THE SKYSCRAPER” •De Rotterdam Complex Rem Koolhaas

“The Skyscraper Has Become Less
Interesting in Inverse Proportion to Its
Success. It Has Not Been Refined but
Corrupted.”
•CCTV Headquarters, Beijing, China – Building’s two towers “One of AR’s Most Influential
are connected by a 246-foot cantilever / “Overhang” Thinkers; Gravity-Defying
•Seattle Central Library Structures”
•IIT McCormick Tribune Campus Center OMA (Office for Metropolitan
AR) – Rem Founder of AR’l Firm

“Architecture is a dangerous mixture of

power and impotence.”

“The straight line belongs to men, the •Casa Josep Batllo (Center of Barcelona) Antoni Gaudi
curved one To God” "God's Architect"

“There are no straight lines or sharp

corners in nature. Therefore, buildings
must have no straight
lines or sharp corners.”
•Casa Mila Barcelona “La Pedrera” (1906-1910)

•Sagrada Familia (Barcelona)

“I am always searching for more light and • Quadracci Pavilion Milwaukee, United States Santiago Calatrava
space.” (Spanish Architect)

“I believe that the material doesn’t need to • Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, United States Shigeru Ban
be strong to be used to build a strong (Japanese Architect)
structure. The strength of the structure has
nothing to do with strength of the
material.”

“For me, the excitement in architecture Steven Holl

revolves around the idea and the (American Architect)
phenomenon of the experience of that
idea. Residences offer almost immediate
gratification. You can shape space, light,
and materials to a degree that you
sometimes can't in larger projects.”
•Simmons Hall

“There is a rumor that I can’t draw and •Sydney Opera House (1973) Jørn Utzon
never could. This is probably because I (Danish Architect)
work so much with models. Models are
one of the most beautiful design tools, but
I still do the finest drawings you can
imagine.”
“Make No Little Plans, They Have No •Flatiron Building “Fuller Building” (Manhattan NY) Daniel Burnham
Magic to Stir Man’s Blood.” (American Architect)

“Nature, not the machine, should serve as •Villa Mairea Alvar Aalto
the model for Architecture.” •Neur Vahr Apartment (Germany)

“Building art is a synthesis of life in

materialized form. We should try to bring
in under the same hat not a splintered way
of thinking, but all in
harmony together.”

“My passion and great enjoyment for •Centre Pompidou Richard Rogers
architecture, and the reason the older I get (High-tech Pioneered)
the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we
- architects - can affect the quality of life of
the people.”
“Each new situation requires a new •National Museum of Qatar Jean Nouvel
architecture.”

•La Marseillaise (skyscraper office)

“Architecture aims at eternity.”
“There will never be great architects or
great architecture without great patrons.
“Architects have made architecture too
complex. We need to simplify it and use a
language that everyone can understand.”
“In any architecture, there is an equity
between the pragmatic function and the
symbolic
function.”
•St. Paul's Cathedral Christopher Wren
•Monument to the Great Fire (London) most highly acclaimed English
architects in history, as well as
an anatomist, astronomer,
geometer, and mathematician-
physicist.
•Sheldonian Theatre
•Rashtrapati Bhavan Edwin Lutyens
English architect known for
imaginatively adapting
traditional architectural styles
•Castle Drogo (England)
•India Gate
•Sendai Mediatheque (Japan) Toyo Ito
(Japanese Architect)
•Gifu Media Cosmos (Japan)
•Team Disney Burbank California (7 Dwarves Facade) Michael Graves
•Portland Building (Member of The New York Five
•Denver Public Library and the Memphis Group)
•Steigenberger Hotel in Egypt (Professor of architecture at
Princeton University for nearly
forty years)
“What surprises me most in architecture, as
in other techniques, is that a project has
one life in its built state but another in its
written or drawn state."
“The purpose of architecture is to create
an atmosphere in which man can live,
work, and enjoy.”
“Architecture is a visual art, and the
buildings speak for themselves.”
“Profit and bottom line, the contemporary
mantra, eliminates the very source of
architectural expression.”
“Architecture is the design of space, both
interior and exterior. So, it’s much more
closely related to dance than it is to
painting or sculpture.”
“Architecture is not a private affair; even a
house must serve a whole family and its
friends, and most buildings are used by
everybody, people of all walks of life. If a
building is to meet the needs of all the
people, the architect must look for some
common ground of understanding and
experience.”
Aldo Rossi
(First Italian to receive the
Pritzker Prize for architecture)
(One of the leading proponents
of the postmodern movement)
•Hotel Il Palazzo Fukuoka, Japan
•Designing the original World Trade Center (New Minoru Yamasaki
York City) First-generation Japanese
•Northwestern National Life Building American
Gateway District of Minneapolis
(ReliaStar Building/ING 20 Washington and now as
Voya Financial 20 Washington)
•Hearst Castle (San Simeon, Central Coast of California) Julia Morgan
(American Archt & Engr)
First Woman admitted to Ecole
des Beaux- Arts in Paris; 700+
California Bldgs.
•Julia Morgan House
•The Museum of Anthropology Arthur Erickson
(Vancouver, British Columbia (Canadian Architect)
noted figure in Canadian AR’l
History)
• Willis Tower (originally the Sears Tower) Chicago, Bruce John Graham
Illinois (Peruvian-American Architect)
involved w/ Burnham Plan of
Chicago Notable Building
•The Westin Bonaventure Hotel & Suites John Portman
Los Angeles, United States (American Neo-Futuristic Archt
& Real Estate Developer)
“The great thing about being an architect
is you can walk into your dreams.”
“Architecture is an art when one
consciously or unconsciously creates
aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and
when this environment produces well
being.”
“If a building becomes architecture, then it
is art.”
“Tradition is a challenge to innovation.”
•Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church (Florida) Harold Wagoner
prominent twentieth-century
American ecclesiastical architect
who designed many notable
churches
•National Presbyterian Church (Washington DC USA)
•Cathedral Of the Rockies
•Second Presbyterian Church (Memphis, Tennessee)
(1952)
•Casa Luis Barragán (Museum in Mexico) Luis Barragan
•Torres de Satélite (Mexico) (Mexican Engr & Architect)
•Faro del Comercio (Sculpture in Monterrey,
Mexico)
•Forum und Rathaus Castrop-Rauxel, Germany Arne Jacobsen
(Danish Architect)
•Piscina das Marés Alvaro Siza
(Public Swimming Pool) (Portugal) (Portuguese architect)
•Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves
(Portugal)
“Architecture is much more than a •La Maison Bernard Oye-Plage, France Odile Decq
profession; It’s a discipline.” (French architect)
"Poetic modernism"
(Urban planner and academic.
She is the founder of the Paris
firm, Studio Odile Decq)

“Architecture isn't just about creating new •Abbey of Our Lady of Nový Dvůr John Pawson
buildings, sometimes it’s about retuning Bohemia, Czech Republic (Minimalist aesthetic)
what's already there.”

“I’m telling you; the materials are the same, •Hotel Tassel, Brussels (Central stair hall) Victor Horta
you know as well as I do…” (Belgian Architect) Founder of
Art Nouveau in the 1890’s

“I do not write, I build.” •Palmio Sanatorium (Center of Barcelona) Alvar Aalto

(Finnish Architect)
“Architecture belongs to culture not to
civilization."

“Nature, not the machine, should serve as

the model for Architecture.”
•Mit Baker House Dormitory (Cambridge, Massachusetts)

•Helsinki University of Technology Lecture Hall

•Turun Sanomat
•Filandia Hall
“I try to make a house like a flower pot, in •Kaufmann House (Palm Spring California) Richard Neutra
which you can root something and out of (Austrian-American architect)
which family life will bloom.”

“Architecture must have a razor-sharp

sense of individuality.”

•Tower of Hope, Christ Cathedral

“A lasting Architecture has to have roots.” •Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (Cleveland, Ohio) I.M Pei (Leoh Ming Pei)
(Chinese American Architect)

•Baltimore World Trade Center (Maryland)

•Louvre Museum (Paris, France)

• Luce Memorial Chapel, 1963

“I have built little. But I have built many • Munich Olympic Stadium (Munich, Germany) Frei Otto
castles in the air.” (German architect and
structural Engineer)
“To build means to make architecture real
on the borders of knowledge.”