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1. PHILIP JOHN- All architects want to live beyond their deaths.
SON
2. KENZO TANGE The city must be subject to growth, decay and renewal.
3. PHILIP JOHN- Architecture is the art of how to waste space
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4. OSCAR NIEMEY- "Form follows beauty."
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5. 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.
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6. OSCAR NIEMEY- . Architecture will always express the technical and social
ER 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.
7. 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.
8. ROBERT VEN- Forms accommodates function.
TURI
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9. FRANK GEHRY Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn
for timelessness
10. ROBERT VEN- Less is bore.
TURI
11. TADAO ANDO I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their
own resources, to move into the future.
12. ROBERT VEN- Unity disguised as chaos- complexity and contradiction
TURI are often what make works of art both exciting and pro-
found
13. TADAO ANDO Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully ex-
ist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and
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the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the
two.
14. RENZO PIANO architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea
that you can fight against gravity.
15. JEAN NOUVEL Each new situation requires a new architecture.
16. 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.
17. JEAN NOUVEL I think architecture has to be a gift.
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18. 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
19. ANTONIO GAUDI Form does not necessarily follow function.
20. ADOLF LOOS Ornament is a crime and all ornamentation must be reject-
ed
21. AUGUSTE PER- "Truth is indispensible to Architecture & architectural lie
RET concepts."
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22. BENJAMIN H. LA- "A bldg. is the combination of different geometric figures."
TROBE
23. BUCKMINSTER "We called architects of the future not its victims"
FULLER "Starting with holes"
24. EERO SAARI- Function influence but does not dictate form
NEN
25. ELIEL SAARI- Architecture - form equals social-form
NEN
26. ERICH MENDEL- "Architecture seizes upon space, encompasses space
SOHN and is space itself."
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27. ELIEL SAARI- "Beauty grows from necessity not from repetition of formu-
NEN las."
28. ERICH MENDEL- "Architecture depends on the sensuous seizure by means
SOHN of touch and sight."
29. DANIEL BURN- Make big plans; aim high in hope and hope and work,
HAM remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded
will not die.
30. FRANK LLOYD Every great architect is necessarily - a great poet. He must
WRIGHT be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
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31. DANIEL BURN- Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir mens blood.
HAM
32. FRANK LLOYD Architecture is Organic.
WRIGHT
33. FRANK LLOYD The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you
WRIGHT 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.
34. FRANK LLOYD Think simples as my old master used to say - meaning
WRIGHT reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms,
getting back to first principles.
35. FRANK LLOYD An idea is salvation by imagination.
WRIGHT
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36. LE CORBUSIER The house ia a machine for living in.
37. LE CORBUSIER Architecture or Revolution
38. LE CORBUSIER the exterior of the building is the result of the interior.
39. LOUIS KAHN Architecture is the reaching out for the truth
40. LOUIS SULLIVAN Forms follows function
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41. LOUIS KAHN Every time a student walks past and really urgent, expres-
sive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can
help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have
that soul.
42. LOUIS KAHN "A house is a house."
43. LUDWIG MIES Less is more.
VAN DER ROHE
44. LUDWIG MIES Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space
VAN DER ROHE
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45. LUDWIG MIES God is in the details.
VAN DER ROHE
46. MARCUS VITRU- Architecture is a science arising out of many other sci-
VIUS POLIO ences, 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.
47. LUDWIG MIES It is better to be good than to be original.
VAN DER ROHE
48. LUDWIG MIES Less is more, almost
VAN DER ROHE
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49. LUCIO COSTA I am neither a capitalist nor a socialist, I am not a religious
or an atheist.
50. MARCEL LAJOS Architecture is a social art."
BREUER
51. LUCIO COSTA Each one sees whatever he wishes to see
52. MARCUS VITRU- Architecture must meet 3 requirements: Strength, Beauty,
VIUS POLIO and Utilities
53. WALTER "Art and Architecture, the new unity."
GROPUIS
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54. ROBERT MAIL- "A bridge is like a house."
LART
55. OSCAR NIEMEY- "Architecture is invention."
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56. LUDWIG MIES "Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks to-
VAN DER ROHE gether. There it begins."
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