ARCHITECTS AND THEIR FAMOUS PHILOSOPHIES AND WORKS
NAME NATIONALITY PHILOSOPHY BUILDING
Le Corbusier (Charles- Eduard Jeanneret-Gris) Swiss/French 1. A house is a machine for living in 2. Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep 1. Villa Savoye, France 2. Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp, France 3. Unit d Habitation, Marseille, France 4. Buildings in Chandiragh, India 5. National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo Ludwig Mies Van de Rohe German/American 1. God is in the details 2. Less is more 3. Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space 1. Barcelona Pavilion 2. Tugendhat House 3. Crown Hall 4. Farnsworth House, Illinois 5. 860-880 Lake Shore Drive, Illinois 6. Seagram Building, New York 7. New National Gallery 8. Toronto-Dominion Centre Walter Adolf Georg Gropius German/American 1. Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all return to the crafts. For art is not a profession. There is no essential difference between the artist and the craftsman. The artist is the exalted craftsman. 1. Bauhaus Building Dessau, Germany 2. Gropius Residence, Massachusetts 3. Harvard Graduate Center 4. Pan Am Building, New York Frank Lloyd Wright American 1. A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. 2. Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders spinning, buildings qualified by light bred by native character to environment, married to the ground. 3. Space is the breath of art. 4. The architect must be a prophet. A prophet in the true sense of the term. If he cant see at least ten years ahead dont call him an architect. 1. Robie House, Illinois 2. Kaufmann House or the Falling water, Bear Run, Pennsylvania 3. Guggenheim Museum, New York 4. Johnson Wax Headquarters, Wisconsin Henry Louis Sullivan American 1. Form Follows Function 1. Auditorium Building, Chicago 2. Carson Pirie Scott store, Chicago 3. Van Allen Building, Clinton, Iowa 4. Guaranty Building (formerly Prudential Building), Buffalo 5. Krause Music Store, Chicago Oscar Neimeyer Brazilian 1. Bull#!+!! Architecture has always been for the rich and never for the power people. 2. My work is not about form follows function, but forms follows beauty or, even better, form follows feminine. 3. Architecture is about surprise. 1. United Nations headquarters City of Brasilia 2. Edificio Copan National Congress of Brazil 3. Cathedral of Brazilia Tadao Ando Japanese 1. Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture 2. My hand is the extension of the thinking process the creative process 1. Row house, Sumiyoshi 2. Church of the Light, Osaka 3. Water Template, Awaji 4. Rokko Housing I, II, III, Kobe 5. Langen Foundation, Netherlands Norman Foster British 1. Control is the wrong word. The practice is very much about sharing, and in any creative practice, some individuals, whether partners or directors, are much closer to certain projects than I could ever be. 1. The Hearst Tower, New York 2. The Expo MRT Station, part of the Mass Rapid Transit System in Singapore 3. Metropolitan Building, Warsaw 4. Dreden Hauptbanhof roof and cupola 5. Deustche Bank Place, Sydney, Australia 6. HSBC Main Building, Hong Kong
Richard Buckminster Bucky Fuller American 1. A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. 2. Dont fight forces, use them. 1. The Geodesic Dome Antonio Gaudi Spanish 1. Copier do not collaborate 2. Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic 1. The Casa Mila, Barcelona 2. The Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Familia, Spain 3. Park Gell, El Carmel, Barcelona Peter Behrens German 1. Type is one of the most eloquent means of expression in very epoch of style. Next to architecture, it gives the most characteristic portrait of a period and the most severe testimony of a nations intellectual status. 1. AEG Turbine Factory, Berline, Germany Philip Cortelyou Johnson American 1. All architects want to live beyond their deaths. 2. Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down clients, but weve both got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business. 3. Architecture is the art of how to waste space. 1. Chapel of St. Basil on the Academic Mall at the University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas 2. Puerta de Europa, Madrid 3. The Glass House, Connecticut 4. The postmodern AT&T Building, now the Sony Building 5. The Crystal Cathedral, Garden Grove, California Erich Mendelson German Jewish n/a 1. Einstein Tower in Potsdam, Germany 2. Hat Factory, Luckenwalde 3. The Red Flas Textile Factory, Saint Petersburg 4. Mossehaus, Berlin, Germany 5. Petersdorff department store in Wroclaw
Frei Otto German n/a 1. West Germany Pavilion at Expo 67 Montreal 2. Tuwaiq Palace, Saudi Arabia, with Buro Happold 3. Roof for Olympic Stadium, Munich 4. Otto is the worlds leading authority on lightweight tensile and membrane structures Jean Nouvel French 1. Each new situation requires a new architecture. 1. Torre Aiges de Barcelona (Agbar), Barcelona 2. Apartment Building at 100 11 th Avenue (Nouvel), Manhattan 3. Guthrie Theater (2006), Minneapolis 4. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (2005), Madrid 5. Dentsu Building (1198), Tokyo Renzo Piano Italian 1. A museum is a place where one should lose ones head. 1. Pompidou centre, Paris 2. Nemo Science Centre, Amsterdam 3. High Museum of Art Expansion, Atlanta, Georgia 4. Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago 5. Nichols Bridgeway, Chicago, Illinois Ieoh Ming Pei (I.M. Pei) Chinese American 1. I believe in the continuity of this tradition for it is by no mean a relic of the past but a living force that animates and informs the present 2. The greatest challenge and the greatest accomplishments of my career. Pei on the completion of the glass pyramid 3. Architectural tradition is a living force that animates the present. 1. Bank of China Tower, Hong Kong 2. Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas, Texas 3. The Louvre, Paris 4. John Hancock Tower, Boston 5. Dallas City Hall Aldo Rossi Italian n/a 1. Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht 2. The Quarter Schzenstrasse, Berlin
Eliel Saarinean Finnish 1. Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan. 1. National Museum of Finland 2. Helsinki Central railway station 3. Saint Pauls Church, Tartu 4. First Christian Church, Columbus 5. Christ Church Lutheran, Minneapolis 6. Finish Pavilion at the Exposition Universelle, Paris 7. Saarinean designed entire city districts of Helsinki Eero Saarinean Finnish 1. The character or expression of any building can only be achieved if it is itself a total expression. Like any work of art, it must be dominated by a strong, simple concept. All of its parts must be an active part of one dominant attitude. 1. Gateway Arch, St. Louis, Missouri 2. TWA Terminal at JFK International Airport 3. Washington Dulles International Airport 4. US Embassies in Oslo and London 5. IBM Rochester, a plant in Rochester, Minnesota Kenzo Tange Japanese 1. Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future. 2. I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter. 1. Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum 2. Hiroshima Peace Monument 3. Kagawa Prefectural, The Government Building East Office 4. Yamanashi Broadcasting and Press Centre 5. Yoyogi National Gymnasium 6. Tokyo Metropolitan Government Office, Shinjuku, Tokyo 7. Osaka Expo Festival Plaza 8. Fuji Television Building, Odaiba, Tokyo Jorn Utzon Danish n/a 1. The Sydney Opera House 2. Kuwait National Assembly Building 3. Water tower in Svaneke, Bornholm, Denmark 4. Skagen Odde Nature Center, Denmark 5. Kingo Houses, Elsinore, Denmark
Zaha Hadid British Iraqi 1. I dont think that racism is as big a problem as the women business. But Ive never faced it in Europe. 1. Bridge Pavilion in Zaragoza, Spain 2. Bergisel Ski Jump, Innsbruck, Austria 3. BMW Central Building, Leipzig, Germany 4. Vitra Fire Station, Weil am Rhein, Germany 5. Maggies Centre, Kirkcaldy Santiago Calatrava Spanish 1. Its very atmospheric. Its not a building that is severe statement in the skyline. We need the height; otherwise, the building almost disappears because it is so slender. 2. This is an opportunity to make something extremely practical and logical, which at the same time tries to inspire the imagination in a way that can happen only here in New York Harbor. 1. The Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 2. Allen Lambert Galleria at Brookfield Place, Toronto, Canada 3. Puente del Alamillo at night, made for the expo 92, Seville 4. Auditorio de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain 5. TGV train station, Lige, Belgium 6. Bahnhof Stadelhofen, Zrich Daniel Libeskind American 1. Cities are the greatest creations of humanity. 2. To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it. 3. Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. Its just an idea. Ninety- nine percent never get built. 1. Jewish Museum Berlin, Berlin, Germany 2. Felix Nussbaum Haus, Osnabrck, Germany 3. Imperial War Museum North, Greater Manchester, England 4. Westside Shopping and Leisure Centre, Bern Switzerland 5. London Metropolitan University Graduate Centre, London England Adolf Loos Austrian 1. Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architects task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise. 2. The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. 1. Caf Museum, Vienna 2. Khuner Villa, Kreuzberg, Austria 3. American Bar, Vienna 4. Rufer House, Vienna 5. Villa Moller, Vienna
Marcel Bruer Hungarian n/a 1. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 2. Hagerty House, Cohasset, MA 3. UNESCO headquarters, Paris, France 4. Pennsylvania Pavilion, 1939 New York, Worlds Fair 5. United States Embassy, The Hague, Netherlands Daniel Burnham American 1. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die. 2. Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir mens blood 1. Burnham Park, Baguio, Philippines 2. Baguio City Planning 3. Flatiron Building, New York 4. Union Station, El Paso, Texas 5. Plan of Chicago 6. Negros Occidental Provincial Capitol Building, Bacolod, Philippines Mario Botta Swiss 1. I do not follow any fixed criterion, perhaps the only rule which may be defined a common denominator of my work is that of interrogating the place, the site where a transformation is to take place. 1. Swisscom Telecommunication headquarters, Bellinzona 2. Harting Technologiegruppe headquarters, Minden 3. Casin di campione, Campione D Italia 4. Watari Museum of Contemporary Art in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan Frank Gehry Canadian American 1. Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness. 2. Youve got to bumble forward into the unknown. 3. Liquid Architecture. Its like Jazz you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think its a way for me, its a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.
1. The Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain 2. The Experience Music Project in Seattle 3. Walt Disney Concert Hall, California 4. Dancing House, Prague 5. Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada Minoru Yamasaki American 1. Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe. 2. We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings dont go anywhere. They shouldnt be restless. 3. The World Trade Center is a living symbol of mans dedication to world peace. A representation of mans belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness. 1. The former World Trade Center, New York 2. One Woodward Avenue, Detroit 3. One M&T Plaza, Buffalo, New York 4. Temple Beth El, Bloomfield Township, Michigan 5. The Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College Robert Venturi American 1. Less is a bore. 2. It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building. 1. Freedom Plaza, Washington, D.C. 2. Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery, London 3. Episcopal Academy Chapel, Newton Square, Pennsylvania 4. Mielparque Nikko Kirifuri Resort, Nikko National Park, Japan 5. Childrens Museum, Houston, Texas Pier Luigi Nervi Italian n/a 1. The Tour de la Bourse, Montreal 2. UNESCO Headquarters, Paris 3. Stadio Artemio Franchi, Florence 4. Exhibition Building, Turin, Italy 5. The Pirelli Tower, Milan 6. Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption, San Francisco, California