AUSAT - TOA 2

Frank Lloyd Wright

"Form follows function"

Frank Lloyd Wright

"All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable"

Frank Lloyd Wright

"The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines"

Zaha Hadid

"There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?"

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

"Less is more"

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

"Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space"

Louis Sullivan

"Form ever follows function"

Louis Sullivan

"To teach is to touch the heart and impel it to action"

Eliel Saarinen

"Architectural-form equals social-form"

Eliel Saarinen

"Beauty grows from necessity not from repetition of formulas"

Robert Venturi

"Less is a bore"

Robert Venturi

"Forms accommodates function"

Louis Kahn

"Architecture is the reaching out for the truth"

Louis Kahn

"A house is a house"

Louis Kahn

"Even a brick wants to be something"

Louis Kahn

"A room is not a room without natural light"

Le Corbusier

"The house is a machine for living in"

Le Corbusier

"The exterior of the building is the result of the interior"

Le Corbusier

"Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light"

Daniel Libeskind

"Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder"

Daniel Libeskind

"To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it"

Frank Gehry

"People ask me if I'm an artist or an architect. But I think they're the same"

Frank Gehry

"I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do"

Frank Gehry

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

Renzo Piano

"One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again"

Renzo Piano

"You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony"

Renzo Piano

"Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity"

Philip Johnson

"Architecture is the art of how to waste space"

Philip Johnson

"All architects want to live beyond their deaths"

Philip Johnson

"I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?"

Rem Koolhas

"Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things"

Rem Koolhas

"Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning"

I.M. Pei

"Great artists need great clients"

I.M. Pei

"Life is architecture and architecture is the mirror of life"

Norman Foster

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

Norman Foster

"Architecture is an expression of values"

Buckminster Fuller

"When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong"

Buckminster Fuller

"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly"

Alvar Aalto

"Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization"

Alvar Aalto

"It is the task of the architect to give life a gentler structure"

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"

Antoni Gaudí

"Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator"

Antoni Gaudí

"Form does not necessarily follow function"

Jean Nouvel

"Whatever good things we build end up building us"

Jean Nouvel

"We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us"

Jean Nouvel

"Each new situation requires a new architecture"

Oscar Niemeyer

My work is not about "form follows function", but "form follows beauty" or, even better, "form follows feminine"

Oscar Niemeyer

"Form follows beauty"

Richard Meier

"I think white is the most wonderful color of all, because within it one can find every color of the rainbow"

Richard Meier

"The responsibility of an architect is to create a sense of order, a sense of place, a sense of relationship"

Eero Saarinen

"Function influence but does not dictate form"

Eero Saarinen

"Function influence but does not dictate form"

Walter Gropius

"Limitation makes the creative mind inventive"

Walter Gropius

"Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect"

Richard Rogers

"Architecture is measured against the past, you build in the present, and try to imagine the future"

Richard Rogers

"Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times"

Tadao Ando

"I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture"

Tadao Ando

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

Marcel Breuer

"Structure is not just a means to a solution. It is also a principle and a passion"

Marcel Breuer

"I am as much interested in the smallest detail as in the whole structure"

Marcel Breuer

"Architecture is a social art"

Thom Mayne

"My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness"

Thom Mayne

"The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art"

Leonardo da Vinci

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication"

Leonardo da Vinci

"Art is never finished, only abandoned"

Shigeru Ban

"I believe that the material doesn't need to be strong to be used to build a strong structure. The strength of the structure has nothing to do with strength of the material"

Shigeru Ban

"I'm not inventing anything new, I'm just using existing material differently"

Michael Graves

"In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function"

Jørn Utzon

"I have made a sculpture ... you will never be finished with it - when you pass around it or see it against the sky... something new goes on all the time... together with the sun, the light and the clouds, it makes a living thing"

Jørn Utzon

"I like to be on the edge of the possible"

Patric McCur

"Less is more work"

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Architecture is frozen music"

Marcus Vitruvius Polio

"Commodity, firmness, delight..."

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"

Sir Winston Churchill

"We shape our buildings: thereafter they shape us"

Charles Eames

"Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design"

Kenzo Tange

"The city must be subject to growth, decay and renewal"

Adolf Loos

"Ornament is a crime and all ornamentation must be rejected"

Benjamin Latrobe

"A building is the combination of different geometric figures."

Lucio Costa

"I am neither a capitalist nor a socialist, I am not a religious or an atheist"