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Resco, Michelle A.

Theory of Architecture
BSAR - 1F 06/19/21

Famous Dictums of Architects

"Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space; living, changing, new."
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

"The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul
of our own civilization."
- Frank Gehry

"Function influence but does not dictate form."


- Eero Saarinen

"Architecture must meet 3 requirements: strength, beauty, and unity."


- Marcus Vitruvius Pocio

"Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness."
- Frank Gehry

"Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the
light."
- Le Corbusier

"As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future
which is essentially unknown."
- Norman Foster

"To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it."
- Daniel Libeskind

"Ignorance is bliss... with this innocence you can create and question a lot of things."
- Kunle Adeyemi

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."


- Leonardo da Vinci

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