Architects' Dictums

"Architectural-form equals social-form" "Form follows function"
= Eliel Saarinen = Louis Sullivan
"Form does not necessarily follows function" "The city must be subjected to growth, decay
and renewal"
= Antoni Gaudi
= Kenzo Tange
"A house is a house"

"God is in the Details"
= Louis Kahn
= Mies Van der Rohe
"The house is a machine to live in"

“The eradication of the superficial and
= Le Corbusier unnecessary, replacing elaborate applied
ornament with the straightforward display of
materials and forms”
"Art and Architecture, the new unity"
= Mies Van der Rohe
= Walter Gropius
"Architecture must meet three requirements:

"Less is more, almost" strength, beauty, unity"
= Mies Van de Rohe = Marcus Vitruvius Polio
"The first machine for living" "It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is
nevertheless a most important truth, that no
= Buckminster Fuller
architecture can be truly noble which is not
imperfect "
"The Ultimate goal of the new architecture = John Ruskin

was the composite but inseparable work of an
art, in which the old dividing line between
monumental and decorative elements will "To create architecture is to put in order; Put
have disappeared forever" what in order? Function and Objects"
= Walter Gropius = Le Corbusier
"A house is like a flower pot" "The exterior of the building is the result of
the interior"
= Richard Josef Neutra
= Le Corbusier
"Architecture is Invention"
“Form and Function are one”
= Oscar Niemeyer
= Frank Lloyd Wright
"Function influence but does not dictate form"

“The reality of a building is not the container
= Eero Saarinen
but the space within”
"Form accommodates function"
= Robert Venturi
“The architect is a molder of men, whether or “Strength, Beauty and Unity”
nit he consciously assumes responsibility”
= Marcus Vitruvius
“Architecture is an imitation of nature”

“Nature spelled with a capital N the way you
spell God with a capital G” = Marcus Vitruvius

“Design is how, form is what”
“Organic architecture: all parts are related to = Richard Rogers

the whole as the whole was related to the
parts; continuity and integrity”
“Less is bore”
= Robert Venturi
“Structural correctness is identical with

functional, technical and economic “Nothing that is not practical can be beautiful”
truthfulness”
= Otto Wagner
= Pier Luigi Nervi
“Essential basis of natural forms as

“Architecture is a synthesis of the technology geometries”
and art”
= Otto Wagner
= Pier Luigi Nervi
“Essential basis of natural forms as

“Intuition should be used as much as geometries”
mathematics in design, especially with thin
= Otto Wagner
shelled structure”
= Pier Luigi Nervi
“Humanism”
= Minoru Yamasaki
“Architecture is expression of poetry”
= Oscar Niemeyer
“Design as if you are a child”
= Michael Graves
“Architecture must have liberty of forms”
= Oscar Niemeyer
“Classical forms language of both the
arctuated and trabeated models”
“Modern architecture not need to be western”
= Michael Graves
= Kenzo Tange
“Ornament equals crime”

“Symbolism and blasphemies”
= Adolf Loos
= I.M Pei
“Lift the building in modern dress”

“Architecture is the expression of the past”
= Adolf Loos
= I.M Pei
“The visual distinction in using ornaments is “The integration of notion of cheapness to
not between complicated and simple, but create sublime conditions”
between ‘organic’ and superfluous
decoration” = Rem Koolhaas
= Adolf Loos
“A town in a town”
“Modern ideas in modern dress” =Otto Wagner
= Charles Renee Mackintosh

“Form is the mystery that defies description
but brings people pleasure”
“Design by living men for living men”
= Alvar Aalto
= Charles Renee Mackintosh
“God created paper for the purpose of

“Form follows function” drawing architecture on it, everything else is
at least for me an abuse of paper”
= Louis Sullivan
= Alvar Aalto
“A bridge is like a house”

“We should work for simple, good,
=Robert Mailart undecorated things which are in harmony with
the human being and organically suited to the
little man in the street”
“Architecture is the only tangible expression
of space” = Alvar Aalto
=Erich Mendelsohn
“A cube within a cube”
“Function and influence but does not dictate” = Le Corbusier
= Eero Saarinen
“Architecture is the masterly, correct, and
magnificent play of masses brought together
“Spiritual function is inseperable from in light”
practical function”
=Le Corbusier
= Eero Saarinen
“Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a

“Beauty grows from necessity, not from new kind of plan, both for the house and the
repetition” city”
= Eleil Saarinen =Le Corbusier
“Most important material is man” “Architecture or revolution”

= Richard Neutra = Le Corbusier
“The Client is Chaos”

= Rem Koolhaas
“Harmony and proportion are rhythms “Architecture built not for need, but for art”
apparent to the eye and clear in their relations
with one another” = Louis Khan
= Le Corbusier
“Automobile is the most important organizing
element in the structure”
“Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois”
= Paul Rudolph
= Le Corbusier
“Architecture is the art of wasting space”

“Architecture is the masterly, correct and
magnificent play of masses brought together = Philip Johnson
in light”
= Le Corbusier “In a house, you should get a surprise every
time you turn a corner and look up”
“Space and light and order, these are the =Ian Athfield
things men need just as much they need
bread or place to sleep”
“Post modern architecture focuses on forms
= Le Corbusier derived from the mind, body, and nature”
= Charles Jencks
“The ‘styles’ are a lie”
= Le Corbusier “Hyperbolic Parabolid”
= Antoni Gaudi
“Less is more”
= Mies van der Rohe “Skin and Bone Structure”
= Mies Van Der Rohe
“Straight lines belong to man, curved lines
belong to God”
“Rush City”
= Antonio Gaudi
= Richard Neutra
“Nature and architecture are two different

things” “Reflective Glass”
= Marcel Breuer = Eero Saarinen
“Art and Architecture, the new unity” “Fluid Mass Theory”

= Walter Gropius = Erich Mendelsohn
“Machine is to be our modern medium of “Mushroom Slab Construction”

design”
= Robert Mailart
= Walter Gropius
“Ferrocement”
“A house is a house”
= Pier Luigi Nervi
= Louis Khan
“Textile Blocks, Organic Architecture”

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"Architectural-form equals social-form" "Form follows function"

= Eliel Saarinen = Louis Sullivan

"A house is a house"

"The house is a machine to live in"

"Architecture must meet three requirements:

"The Ultimate goal of the new architecture = John Ruskin

"Function influence but does not dictate form"

“Architecture is an imitation of nature”

= Frank Lloyd Wright

“Organic architecture: all parts are related to = Richard Rogers

“Structural correctness is identical with

“Essential basis of natural forms as

“Essential basis of natural forms as

“Ornament equals crime”

“Lift the building in modern dress”

“Modern ideas in modern dress” =Otto Wagner

= Charles Renee Mackintosh

“God created paper for the purpose of

“A bridge is like a house”

“Function and influence but does not dictate” = Le Corbusier

“Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a

“Most important material is man” “Architecture or revolution”

“The Client is Chaos”

“Architecture is the art of wasting space”

“Nature and architecture are two different

“Art and Architecture, the new unity” “Fluid Mass Theory”

“Machine is to be our modern medium of “Mushroom Slab Construction”

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