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This document contains quotes from various architects on their philosophies of architecture. Some key ideas expressed are: - Architecture should reflect its time and place while striving for timelessness (Frank Gehry) - Form should follow function but other considerations like beauty are also important (Louis Sullivan, Oscar Niemeyer) - Architecture must balance technical/social progress with human elements through political participation (Oscar Niemeyer) - Simplicity and reducing elements to their core principles is important in architecture (Frank Lloyd Wright)

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Famous Dictum

This document contains quotes from various architects on their philosophies of architecture. Some key ideas expressed are: - Architecture should reflect its time and place while striving for timelessness (Frank Gehry) - Form should follow function but other considerations like beauty are also important (Louis Sullivan, Oscar Niemeyer) - Architecture must balance technical/social progress with human elements through political participation (Oscar Niemeyer) - Simplicity and reducing elements to their core principles is important in architecture (Frank Lloyd Wright)

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PHILIP JOHNSON

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

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PHILIP JOHNSON
Architecture is the art of how to waste space

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KENZO TANGE
The city must be subject to growth, decay and renewal.

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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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OSCAR NIEMEYER
"Form follows beauty."

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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.

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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.

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FRANK GEHRY
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness

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ROBERT VENTURI
Forms accommodates function.

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ROBERT VENTURI
Less is bore.

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

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

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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.

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

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JEAN NOUVEL
Each new situation requires a new architecture.

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JEAN NOUVEL
I think architecture has to be a gift.

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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.

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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

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

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ANTONIO GAUDI
Form does not necessarily follow function.

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AUGUSTE PERRET
"Truth is indispensible to Architecture & architectural lie concepts."

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BENJAMIN H. LATROBE
"A bldg. is the combination of different geometric figures."

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BUCKMINSTER FULLER
"We called architects of the future not its victims"
"Starting with holes"

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EDUARDO SOUTO DE MOURA
Drawing architecture is a schizoid act: it involves reducing the world into a piece of paper.

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EERO SAARINEN
Function influence but does not dictate form

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ELIEL SAARINEN
Architecture - form equals social-form

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

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

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

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DANIEL BURNHAM
Make big plans; aim high in hope and hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once
recorded will not die.

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DANIEL BURNHAM
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir mens blood.

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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.

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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
Architecture is Organic.

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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.

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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.

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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
An idea is salvation by imagination.

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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.

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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.

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LE CORBUSIER
The house ia a machine for living in.

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LE CORBUSIER
Architecture or Revolution

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LE CORBUSIER
the exterior of the building is the result of the interior.
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LOUIS KAHN
Architecture is the reaching out for the truth

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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.

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LOUIS KAHN
"A house is a house."

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LOUIS SULLIVAN
Forms follows function

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LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
Less is more.

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LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space

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LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
God is in the details.

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

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LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
Less is more, almost

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

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LUCIO COSTA
Each one sees whatever he wishes to see
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MARCEL LAJOS BREUER
Architecture is a social art."

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MARCUS VITRUVIUS POLIO
Architecture must meet 3 requirements: Strength, Beauty, and Utilities

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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

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