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

A bridge is like a house.

(February 6, 1872 April 5, 1940)

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

mens blood.

SAARINEN, ELIEL

Beauty

Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen

repetition of formulas.

(August 20, 1873 July 1, 1950)

SAARINEN, EERO

grows

from

necessity

not

from

Architectural-form equals social-form.

Function influence but does not dictate form.

(August 20, 1910 September 1, 1961)

PERRET, AUGUSTE

Truth

is

indispensible

(February 12, 1874 - February 25, 1954)

architectural lie concepts.

NIEMEYER, OSCAR

Form follows beauty.

to

Architecture

&

Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho

(December 15, 1907 December 5, 2012)

Architecture is invention.

NERVI, PIER LUIGI

Structural correctness, which is identical

(June 21, 1891 January 9, 1979)

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

(March 27, 1886 August 19, 1969)

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

(March 21, 1887 September 15, 1953)

space and is space itself.

Architecture

depends

on

the

sensuous

seizure by means of touch and sight.

LOOS , ADOLF

Supply and demand regulate architecture

(December 10, 1870 August 23, 1933)

form

LE CORBUSIER

The house is a Machine to live in.

Charles-douard Jeanneret-Gris
(October 6, 1887 August 27, 1965)

Cube within a cube.

LATROBE , BENJAMIN H.

(May 1, 1764 September 3, 1820)

geometric figures.

JOHNSON, PHILIP CORTELYOU

Architecture is the art of how to waste space

bldg.

is

the

combination

of

different

(July 8, 1906 January 25, 2005)

All architects want to live beyond their
deaths.

GROPIUS, WALTER

Architecture begins where engineering ends

(May 18, 1883 July 5, 1969)

BREUER, MARCEL LAJOS

A Building has straight geometrical lines. Even

(May 21, 1902 July 1, 1981)

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.

POCIO, MARCUS VITRUVIUS

Architecture

must

meet

strength, beauty, and unity.

requirements: