ADOLF LOOS

Ornament is a crime and all ornamentation must be rejected

ADOLF LOOS
Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is
architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of
architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything
else that fulfills a function is to be excluded from the domain of art
ALVAR AALTO
Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated
problems. If we split life into separated problem we split the
possibilities to make good building art.
ANTONIO GAUDI
Form does not necessarily follow function.
AUGUSTE PERRET
"Truth is indispensible to Architecture & architectural lie concepts."
BENJAMIN H. LATROBE
"A bldg. is the combination of different geometric figures."
BUCKMINSTER FULLER
"We called architects of the future not its victims"
"Starting with holes"
DANIEL BURNHAM
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir mens blood.
DANIEL BURNHAM
Make big plans; aim high in hope and hope and work, remembering
that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.
EDUARDO SOUTO DE MOURA
Drawing architecture is a schizoid act: it involves reducing the world
into a piece of paper.
EERO SAARINEN
Function influence but does not dictate form
ELIEL SAARINEN
"Beauty grows from necessity not from repetition of formulas."

ELIEL SAARINEN
Architecture - form equals social-form
ERICH MENDELSOHN
"Architecture depends on the sensuous seizure by means of touch
and sight."
ERICH MENDELSOHN
"Architecture seizes upon space, encompasses space and is space
itself."
FRANK GEHRY
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for
timelessness
FRANK GEHRY
Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of
excuses, The client made me do this. The city made me do this.
Oh, the budget. I don't believe that anymore.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
An idea is salvation by imagination.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
Think simples as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the
whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first
principles.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly
ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be
impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all
the day of your life.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
Architecture is Organic.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
Every great architect is necessarily - a great poet. He must be a
great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
JEAN NOUVEL
I think architecture has to be a gift.

JEAN NOUVEL
Each new situation requires a new architecture.
JOHN RUSKIN
It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore
anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That
which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which
is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be
recalled.
JOHN RUSKIN
It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important
truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
KENZO TANGE
The city must be subject to growth, decay and renewal.
KENZO TANGE
Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard
themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power
to reform the future.
LE CORBUSIER
The house ia a machine for living in.
LE CORBUSIER
Architecture or Revolution
LE CORBUSIER
the exterior of the building is the result of the interior.
LOUIS KAHN
Architecture is the reaching out for the truth
LOUIS KAHN
Every time a student walks past and really urgent, expressive piece
of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him
that he does have that mind, does have that soul.
LOUIS KAHN
"A house is a house."
LOUIS SULLIVAN
Forms follows function

LUCIO COSTA
Each one sees whatever he wishes to see
LUCIO COSTA
I am neither a capitalist nor a socialist, I am not a religious or an
atheist.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
Less is more.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
Less is more, almost
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
It is better to be good than to be original.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
God is in the details.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space
MARCEL LAJOS BREUER
Architecture is a social art."
MARCUS VITRUVIUS POLIO
Architecture must meet 3 requirements: Strength, Beauty, and
Utilities
MARCUS VITRUVIUS POLIO
Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and
adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a
judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other
arts.
OSCAR NIEMEYER
. Architecture will always express the technical and social progress
of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the
human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political
struggle.
OSCAR NIEMEYER
"Form follows beauty."

PHILIP JOHNSON
Architecture is the art of how to waste space
PHILIP JOHNSON
All architects want to live beyond their deaths.
RENZO PIANO
architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you
can fight against gravity.
ROBERT VENTURI
Unity disguised as chaos- complexity and contradiction are often
what make works of art both exciting and profound
ROBERT VENTURI
Less is bore.
ROBERT VENTURI
Forms accommodates function.
TADAO ANDO
Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since
there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of
Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.

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TADAO ANDO
I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own
resources, to move into the future.
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