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All architects want to live beyond their deaths.
Philip Johnson
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Architecture is the art of how to waste space
Philip Johnson
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The city must be subject to growth, decay and renewal.
Kenzo Tange
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Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.
Kenzo Tange
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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.
Oscar Niemeyer
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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.
Frank Gehry
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Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
Frank Gehry
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Forms follows function.
Louis Sullivan
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Form and function are one.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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Form follows beauty.
Oscar Niemeyer
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Forms accommodates function.
Robert Venturi
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Function influence but does not dictate form.
Eero Saarinen
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Less is bore.
Robert Venturi
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Unity disguised as chaos - complexity and contradiction are often what make works of art both exciting and profound
Robert Venturi
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I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.
Tadao Ando
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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.
Tadao Ando
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Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.
Renzo Piano
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Each new situation requires a new architecture.
Jean Nouvel
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I think architecture has to be a gift.
Jean Nouvel
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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.
Alvar Aalto (Hugo Alvar Henric)
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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
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Ornament is a crime and all ornamentation must be rejected
Adolf Loos
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Supply and demand regulate architecture form
Adolf Loos
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Form does not necessarily follow function.
Antonio Gaudi
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Truth is indispensible to Architecture & architectural lie concepts.
Auguste Perret
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A building is the combination of different geometric figures.
Benjamin H. Latrobe
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
Buckminster Fuller
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Drawing architecture is a schizoid act: it involves reducing the world into a piece of paper.
Eduardo Souto De Moura
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I have come to the conviction that once one embarks on a concept for a building, this concept has to be exaggerated and overstated and repeated in every part of its interior so that wherever you are, inside or outside, the building sings with the same message.
Eero Saarinen
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Architectural-form equals social-form
Eliel Saarinen
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Beauty grows from necessity not from repetition of formulas.
Eliel Saarinen
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Architecture seizes upon space, encompasses space and is space itself.
Erich Mendelsohn
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Architecture depends on the sensuous seizure by means of touch and sight.
Erich Mendelsohn
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Make big plans; aim high in hope and hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.
Daniel Burnham
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Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir mens blood.
Daniel Burnham
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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
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Architecture is Organic.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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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
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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.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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An idea is salvation by imagination.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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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
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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.
John Ruskin
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The house is a machine for living in.
Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret)
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Architecture or Revolution
Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret)
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the exterior of the building is the result of the interior.
Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret)
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Architecture is the reaching out for the truth
Louis Kahn
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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
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A house is a house.
Louis Kahn
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Less is more.
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
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Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
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God is in the details.
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
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It is better to be good than to be original.
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
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Less is more, almost
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
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I am neither a capitalist nor a socialist, I am not a religious or an atheist.
Lucio Costa
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Each one sees whatever he wishes to see
Lucio Costa
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Architecture is a social art."
Marcel Lajos Breuer
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Architecture must meet 3 requirements: Strength, Beauty, and Utilities
Marcus Vitruvius Polio
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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.
Marcus Vitruvius Polio
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the reality of a building is not the container but the space within
Frank Lloyd Wright
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the architect is a molder of men, whether or not he consciously assumes responsibility"
Frank Lloyd Wright
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nature spelled with a capital N the way you spell God with a capital G"
Frank Lloyd Wright
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organic architecture: all parts are related to the whole as the whole was related to the parts; continuity and integrity"
Frank Lloyd Wright
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architecture is a synthesis of the technology and art
Pierre Luigi Nervi
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Structural correctness, which is identical with functional, technical & economic is a necessary & sufficient condition of satisfactory aesthetic result.
Pierre Luigi Nervi
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Architecture must have liberty of forms
Oscar Niemeyer
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In my opinion, architecture is invention. And under this prism is how I do my projects, always searching for beautiful, expressive, different and surprising solutions
Oscar Niemeyer
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modern architecture need not be western
Kenzo Tange
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symbolisms and blasphemies
Ieoh Ming Pei
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architecture is the expression of the past
Ieoh Ming Pei
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design is how, form is what
Richard Rogers
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nothing that is not practical can be beautiful
Otto Wagner
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essential basis of natural forms as geometries
Otto Wagner
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The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.
Minoru Yamasaki
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I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.
Minoru Yamasaki
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Design as if you are a child.
Michael Graves
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Classical forms language of both the arctuated and trabeated models.
Michael Graves
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ornament equals crime
Adolf Loos
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lift the building in the ground
Adolf Loos
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modern ideas in modern dress
Charles Renee Mackintosh
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design by living men for living men
Charles Renee Mackintosh
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mushroom slab construction
Robert Mailart
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A bridge is like a house
Robert Maillart
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fluid mass theory
Erich Mendelsohn
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Architecture is the only tangible expression of space, of which the human mind is capable
Erich Mendelsohn
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spiritual function is inseparable from practical function
Eero Saarinen
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beauty grows from necessity, not from repetition
Eleil Saarinen
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a house is like a flower pot
Richard Nuetra
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most important material is man
Richard Nuetra
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the client is chaos
Rem Koolhaas
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the integration of notion of cheapness to create sublime conditions
Rem Koolhaas
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a town in a town
Otto Wagner
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form is the mystery that defies description but brings people pleasure
Alvar Aalto (Hugo Alvar Henric)
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a cube within a cube
Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret)
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architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light
Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret)
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space and light and order. These are the things men need just as much they need bread or place to sleep
Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret)
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the styles are a lie
Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret)
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straight lines belong to man, curved lines belong to God
Antonio Gaudi
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nature and architecture are two different things
Marcel Bruer
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art and architecture, the new unity
Walter Gropius
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machine is to be our modern medium of design
Walter Gropius