PHILIP JOHNSON All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

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.

OSCAR NIEMEYER "Form follows beauty."

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.

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.

ROBERT VENTURI Forms accommodates function.

ROBERT VENTURI Unity disguised as chaos- complexity and contradiction are often what make
works of art both exciting and profound

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

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.

RENZO PIANO architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against
gravity.

JEAN NOUVEL I think architecture has to be a gift.

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.

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

ADOLF LOOS Ornament is a crime and all ornamentation must be rejected

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"

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 SAARINENArchitecture - form equals social-form

ELIEL SAARINEN "Beauty grows from necessity not from repetition of formulas."

ERICH MENDELSOHN "Architecture seizes upon space, encompasses space and is space itself."

ERICH MENDELSOHN "Architecture depends on the sensuous seizure by means of touch and sight."

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.

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT Architecture is Organic.

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 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.

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.

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.

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."

LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE God is in the details.

LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE It is better to be good than to be original.

LUCIO COSTA I am neither a capitalist nor a socialist, I am not a religious or an atheist.

LUCIO COSTA Each one sees whatever he wishes to see

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.

Marcel Bruer - Architecture is a social art

Architecture starts when you carefully out 2 bricks together - mies van Der rohe

Truth is indispensable to Architecture & architectural lie concepts - August Perret

Every Great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. he must be a great original interpreter of his time,
his day, his age - FLW

A house is like a flower pot - Richard Josef Neutra

Cube withing a cube - le corbusier

Form follows function that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in
spiritual union - FLW

Art and Architecture, the new unity - Walter Grooius

Nature and Architecture are two different things - Marcel Breuer

Architecture seizes upon space, encompasses space and is space itself - Erich Mendelsohn

A building is the combination of different geometric figures - Benjamin Latrobe

Architecture is invention - Oscar Niemeyer

Modern Architecture need not to be western - Kenzo Tange

Form does not necessarily follow function - Antoni Gaudi