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    The document lists famous architects and their dictums or sayings about architecture. Some of the key quotes include Louis Sullivan's "Form follows function", Frank Lloyd Wright's view that form and function should be united in a spiritual way, and Mies van der Rohe's famous phrase "Less is more". The dictums cover different philosophies on how architecture relates to functions, aesthetics, space, and society.

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    The document lists famous architects and their dictums or sayings about architecture. Some of the key quotes include Louis Sullivan's "Form follows function", Frank Lloyd Wright's view that form and function should be united in a spiritual way, and Mies van der Rohe's famous phrase "Less is more". The dictums cover different philosophies on how architecture relates to functions, aesthetics, space, and society.

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    4/19/2016

    DictumsofFamousArchitects|Architectureisfun!

    Architects

    Dictums

    SULLIVAN,LOUIS

    Formfollowsfunction.

    GAUDI,ANTONIO

    Formdoesnotnecessarilyfollowfunction.

    WRIGHT,FRANKLLOYD

    Form follows function that has been


    misunderstood.Formandfunctionshouldbe
    one,joinedinaspiritualunion.
    Everygreatarchitectisnecessarilyagreat
    poet. He must be a great original interpreter
    ofhistime,hisday,hisage.

    GROPUIS,WALTER

    ArtandArchitecture,thenewunity.

    KAHN,LOUIS

    Architecture is the reaching out for the


    truth
    Ahouseisahouse.

    MAILLART,ROBERT
    (February6,1872April5,1940)

    Abridgeislikeahouse.

    BURNHAM,DANIEL

    Makebigplansaimhighinhopeandwork,
    remembering that a noble, logical diagram
    oncerecordedwillnotdie.
    Make no little plans they have no magic to
    stirmensblood.

    SAARINEN,ELIEL
    GottliebElielSaarinen

    Beauty grows from necessity not from


    repetitionofformulas.

    (August20,1873July1,1950)

    Architecturalformequalssocialform.

    SAARINEN,EERO
    (August20,1910September1,1961)

    Function influence but does not dictate


    form.

    PERRET,AUGUSTE
    (February12,1874February25,1954)

    Truth is indispensible to Architecture &


    architecturallieconcepts.

    NIEMEYER,OSCAR
    OscarRibeirodeAlmeidaNiemeyerSoaresFilho
    (December15,1907December5,2012)

    Formfollowsbeauty.

    NERVI,PIERLUIGI
    (June21,1891January9,1979)

    Structuralcorrectness,whichisidentical
    with functional, technical & economic is a

    Architectureisinvention.

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    necessary & sufficient condition of


    satisfactoryaestheticresult.
    LUDWIG,MIESVANDERROHE
    MariaLudwigMichaelMies
    (March27,1886August19,1969)

    Lessismore.
    Architecture is the will of an epoch
    translatedintospace.
    Architecture starts when you carefully put
    twobrickstogether.Thereitbegins.

    MENDELSOHN,ERICH
    (March21,1887September15,1953)

    Architecture
    seizes
    upon
    space,
    encompassesspaceandisspaceitself.
    Architecture depends on the sensuous
    seizurebymeansoftouchandsight.

    LOOS,ADOLF
    (December10,1870August23,1933)

    Supply and demand regulate architecture


    form

    LECORBUSIER
    CharlesdouardJeanneretGris
    (October6,1887August27,1965)

    ThehouseisaMachinetolivein.

    LATROBE,BENJAMINH.
    (May1,1764September3,1820)

    A bldg. is the combination of different


    geometricfigures.

    JOHNSON,PHILIPCORTELYOU
    (July8,1906January25,2005)

    Architectureistheartofhowtowastespace

    Cubewithinacube.

    All architects want to live beyond their


    deaths.
    GROPIUS,WALTER
    (May18,1883July5,1969)

    Architecture
    ends

    begins

    where

    engineering

    BREUER,MARCELLAJOS
    (May21,1902July1,1981)

    A Building has straight geometrical lines.


    Evenwhentheselinesarefree,itmustalways
    beevidentthattheyhavebeenstudied&that
    theydidnotspringupsimultaneously.
    Nature & Architecture are two different
    things.
    Architectureisasocialart.

    POCIO,MARCUSVITRUVIUS

    Architecture must meet 3 requirements:


    strength,beauty,andunity.

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