Le Corbusier (Swiss-French Architect) Frank Lloyd Wright (The Greatest American Architect of All time

DICTUM: (Promoter/Father of Organic Architecture)

A house is a machine for living in. DICTUM:
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own
assembled in the light. we have no soul of our own civilization.
I prefer drawing to talking drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies. An idea is salvation by imagination.
Cube within a Cube. Space is the breath of art.”
Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he
brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light: light and is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.
shade reveal these forms. I Believe in God, Only I Spell It Nature.
Every Great Architect Is Necessarily a Great Poet.
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe (German-American Architect)
DICTUM: Renzo Piano (Italian Architect)
Less is more. DICTUM:
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. A museum is a place where one should lose one’s head.
God is in the details. Architecture is Art, but art vastly contaminated by many other
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. things. Contaminated in the best sense of the word-fed, fertilized by many
A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is things…
why Chippendale is famous.
Sir Norman Foster (British Architect) The Hero of High-Tech
Robert Venturi (American Architect) (High-tech Pioneered)
DICTUM: DICTUM:
Less is bore. As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the
More is more. past, for a future which is essentially unknown.
Great Architect should wear its message lightly
Philip Johnson (Advocate International Style) (Postmodernism Architecture is an expression of values.
Promoters) (1st Pritzker Awardee 1979)
DICTUM: Walter Gropius (German Architect)
Architecture is the art of how to waste space. DICTUM:
Form follows form, Not function. Architecture begins where engineering ends.
We want to create the purely organic building, boldly emanating its
Louis Sullivan (Father of Skyscrapers)(First Modern Architect) inner laws, free of untruths or ornamentation
DICTUM: Founder of Bauhaus
Form Follows Function. One of the Pioneers of Modern Architecture
 Our ultimate goal, therefore, was the composite but inseparable Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart,
work of art --- the great building --- in which the old dividing line between but even them, basic forms spaces and appearance must be logical…
monumental and decorative. “Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.”
Buckminster Fuller (American Architect)
DICTUM: Peter Eisenman (One of New York 5)
When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. But DICTUM:
when I’ve finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it’s wrong. The architecture we remember is that which never consoles or
comforts us.
Frank Gehry (Canadian-American Architect) The best Architecture was incongruous and disharmonious.
DICTUM:
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for Zaha Hadid (Queen of the Curve) Greatest Female Arch’t
timelessness. DICTUM:
98% of what gets built today is shit. Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to
feel good in a space. On the one hand it’s about shelter, but it’s also about
Oscar Niemeyer (Brazilian Architect) King of Curves pleasure.
DICTUM:
When a Form Creates Beauty, It Becomes Functional & Therefore Eero Saarinen (Finnish-American Architect)
Fundamental in Architecture DICTUM:
My work is not about 'form follows function’, but 'form follows To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see
beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine. in a few lines whether a man is really an architect.
In Architecture, the most important thing is Astonishment. The function influence but does not dictate form.
The purpose of Architecture is to shelter and enhance man’s life on
Tadao Ando (Japanese Architect) earth and to fulfill in the nobility in of his existence.
DICTUM:
You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to Eliel Saarinen (Finnish-American Architect)
absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that DICTUM:
knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see. Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context – a
chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an
Daniel Libeskind (introducing complex ideas & emotion) environment in a city plan.
DICTUM: Architectural-form equals social-form.
Architecture is not based on concrete and steel and the elements of Beauty groups from necessity not from repetition of formulas.
the soil. It’s based on wonder.
Rem Koolhaas (One of AR’s Most Influential Thinkers; Gravity-
Kenzo Tange (Japanese Architect) Defying Structures OMA (Office for Metropolitan AR) – Rem
DICTUM: Founder of AR’l Firm
DICTUM:
 KILL THE SKYSCRAPER DICTUM:
The Skyscraper Has Become Less Interesting in Inverse Proportion to I try to make a house like a flower pot, in which you can root
Its Success. It Has Not Been Refined but Corrupted. something and out of which family life will bloom.
“Architecture is a dangerous mixture of power and impotence.” Architecture must have a razor-sharp sense of individuality.
Antoni Gaudi (GOD'S ARCHITECT) Frei Otto (German architect and structural Engineer)
DICTUM: DICTUM:
THE STRAIGHT LINE BELONGS TO MEN, THE CURVED ONE TO GOD. I have built little. But, I have built many castles in the air.
There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, To build means to make architecture real on the borders of
buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners. knowledge.

Jørn Utzon (Danish Architect) I.M Pei (Leoh Ming Pei) (Chinese American Architect)
DICTUM: DICTUM:
There is a rumors that I can’t draw and never could. This is probably A lasting Architecture has to have roots.”
because I work so much with models. Models are one of the most beautiful
design tools, but I still do the finest drawings you can imagine. Victor Horta (Belgian Architect) Founder of Art Nouveau in the
1890’s
Michael Graves (Member of the New York Five and the Memphis Group) DICTUM:
(Professor of architecture at Princeton University for nearly forty years) I’m telling you, the materials are the same, you
DICTUM: know as well as I do…
In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic
function and the symbolic function.

Alvar Aalto (Finnish Architect)

DICTUM:
I do not write, I build.
Architecture belongs to culture not to civilization."
Nature, not the machine, should serve as the model for Architecture.

Louis Kahn (American architect)

DICTUM:
Even a brick wants to be something.
An architect can build a house and build a city in the same breath, if
he thinks about it as being a marvelous, inspired, expressive real.
Architectural form should reflect a building social purpose.

Richard Neutra (Austrian-American architect)