quotes and terms

Antonio San’t Elia

• “Invent & rebuild the futuristic city like an immense shipyard.. Agile, mobile, & dynamic in every detail”

• “Things will endure less than us. Every generation must build its own city”

Le Corbusier

• “A house is a machine for living in” : “furniture is equipment”

• “Architecture is a well stated problem 

• “Plan is the generator”

• “Arch is correct & magnificent of forms assembled in light”

• “To create arch is to put it in order” 

• “to be modern is not a fashion, it is a state”

Kasimir Malevitch

• By suprematism, I mean the supremacy of pure feeling in creative art”

• “Art no longer cares to serve the state & religion.. Art can exist in and for itself” 

• (white on white) (black sq)

Walter Gropius

• “Architecture begins when engineering ends”

• “Limitation makes the creative mind inventive”

• “Grain elevators are monumental” 

• “Building as entity and its separate parts” 

• “Modern, harmonic, & lively arch is a sign of democracy”

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

• “Less is more” 

• “God is in the details”

• “I don’t want to be interesting, I want to be good” 

• “Arch is the will of an era translated into space

Alvar Alto

• “I do not write, I build”

• “Include psychological requirements so expand the rational method to an extent that has the potential of excluding inhuman results”

• “Arch must have charm, beauty in society”

• “Beauty is the result of harmony between several intrinsic factors not the least the social”