Vitruvius machine for living

“A harmonious in.”
design requires “Architecture is
that nothing be the learned game,
added or taken correct and
away.” magnificent, of
Le Corbusier forms assembled
in the light.”
“A house is a
Mies van der “Less is a bore.”
Rohe Philip Johnson
“Architecture is “Architecture is
the will of an the art of how to
epoch translated waste space.”
into space.”
Louis Sullivan
“Less is more.”
“Form follows
Robert Venturi
function.” soul of our own
Frank Lloyd civilization.”
Wright “An idea is
“The mother art is salvation by
architecture. imagination.”
Without an “Space is the
architecture of our breath of art.”
own we have no “A great architect
is not made by “As an architect
way of a brain you design for the
nearly present, with an
so much as he is awareness of the
made by way of a past, for a future
cultivated, which is
enriched heart.” essentially
Norman Foster unknown.”
“Architecture is an “Architecture
expression of should speak of its
values.” time and place,
Walter Gropius but yearn for
timelessness.”
“Architecture
begins where “98% of what gets
engineering ends.” built today is shit.”
Frank Gehry Oscar Niemeyer
“My work is not “You cannot
about 'form simply put
follows function’, something new
but 'form follows into a place.
beauty' or, even You have to
better, 'form absorb what you
follows feminine.” see around you,
Tadao Ando what exists on the
land, and then use “Architecture is
that knowledge not based on
along with concrete and steel
contemporary and the elements
thinking to of the soil. It’s
interpret what you based on wonder.”
see.” Buckminster
Daniel Libeskind Fuller
“When I’m it’s wrong.”
working on a Adolf Loos
problem, I never
“Architecture
think about
arouses
beauty. But when
sentiments in
I’ve finished, if the
man. The
solution is not
architect’s task
beautiful Iknow
therefore, is to
make those “Designs of purely
sentiments more arbitrary nature
precise.” cannot be
“Supply and expected to last
demand regulate long.”
architectural Zaha Hadid
form.” “Architecture is
Kenzo Tange really about well-
being. I think that Charles Eames
people want to “Recognizing the
feel good in a need is the
space… On the primary condition
one hand it’s for design.”
about shelter, but
John Ruskin
it’s also about
pleasure. “ “When we build,
let us think that
we build forever.” “To me the drawn
Peter Eisenman language is a very
revealing
“The architecture
language: one can
we remember is
see in a few lines
that which never
whether a man is
consoles or
really an
comforts us.”
architect.”
Eero Saarinen
Eliel Saarinen an environment,
“Always design a an environment in
thing by a city plan.”
considering it in its
next larger context Louis Kahn
– a chair in a
“A great building
room, a room in a
must begin with
house, a house in
the immeasurable,
must go through making beauty,
measurable beauty emerges
means when it is from selection,
being designed, affinities,
and in the end integration, and
must be love.”
unmeasured.” Paul Rudolph
“Design is not “The essential
element in “Architecture is a
architecture is the dangerous
manipulation of mixture of power
space. It is this and impotence.”
essence which Antoni Gaudi
separates it from
“Ornamentation
all other arts.”
has been, is, and
Rem Koolhaas will be
polychrome. vegetation, not in
Nature does not geology, not in
present us with an topography, not in
object in the animal
monochrome, kingdom. Always
totally uniform the contrast of
with respect to colour is more or
colour – not in less lively, and for
this reason we “I am always
must colour searching for
wholly or in part more light and
every architectural space.”
element.” Shigeru Ban
“I believe that the
Santiago material doesn’t
Calatrava need to be strong
to be used to build “For me, the
a strong structure. excitement in
The strength of architecture
the structure has revolves around
nothing to do with the idea and the
strength of the phenomenon of
material.” the experience of
Steven Holl that idea.
Residences offer larger projects.”
almost immediate Jørn Utzon
gratification. You
“There is a rumour
can shape space,
that I can’t draw
light, and
and never could.
materials to a
This is probably
degree that you
because I work so
sometimes can't in
much with
models. Models “Make no little
are one of the plans; they have
most beautiful no magic to stir
design tools, but I men's blood.
still do the finest Make big plans;
drawings you can aim high in hope
imagine.” and work,
Daniel Burnham remembering that
a noble, logical insistence.”
diagram once Alvar Aalto
recorded will not
“Building art is a
die, but long after
synthesis of life in
we are gone be a
materialised form.
living thing,
We should try to
asserting itself
bring in under the
with ever-growing
same hat not a
splintered way of and the reason
thinking, but all in
the older I get the
harmony more I enjoy it, is
together.” because I believe
Richard Rogers we - architects -
can affect the
“My passion and
quality of life of
great enjoyment
the people.”
for architecture,
Jean Nouvel Edwin Lutyens
“Each new “There will never
situation requires be great architects
a new or great
architecture.” architecture
Christopher Wren without great
patrons.”
“Architecture aims
at eternity.” Toyo Ito
“Architects have Michael Graves
made architecture “In any
too complex. We architecture, there
need to simplify it is an equity
and use a between the
language that pragmatic
everyone can function and the
understand.” symbolic
function.” built state but
Aldo Rossi another in its
written or drawn
“What surprises
state."
me most in
architecture, as in Minoru Yamasaki
other techniques, “The purpose of
is that a project architecture is to
has one life in its create an
atmosphere in themselves.”
which man can Arthur Erickson
live, work, and
“Profit and bottom
enjoy.”
line, the
Julia Morgan contemporary
“Architecture is a mantra, eliminates
visual art, and the the very source of
buildings speak for architectural
expression.” exterior. So it’s
much more closely
related to dance
Bruce John
than it is to
Graham
painting or
“Architecture is sculpture.”
the design of
John Portman
space, both
interior and “Architecture is
not a private people of all walks
affair; even a of life. If a building
house must serve is to meet the
a whole family needs of all the
and its friends, people, the
and most architect must
buildings are used look for some
by everybody, common ground
of understanding Luis Barragan
and experience.” “Architecture is an
Harold Wagoner art when one
“The great thing consciously or
about being an unconsciously
architect is you creates aesthetic
can walk into your emotion in the
dreams.” atmosphere and
when this it is art.”
environment
produces well
Alvaro Siza
being.”
“Tradition is a
Arne Jacobsen
challenge to
“If a building innovation.”
becomes
Odile Decq
architecture, then
“Architecture is sometimes its
much more than a about retuning
profession; It’s a what's already
discipline.” there.”
John Pawson Walter Gropius
“Architecture isn't “Our ultimate
just about creating goal, therefore,
new buildings, was the composite
but inseparable elements would
work of art --- the have disappeared
great building --- forever.”
in which the old
dividing line
between
monumental and
decorative