FAMOUS DICTUMS/PHILOSOPHIES/SAYINGS
“Form follows function” “Less is more”
- Louis Sullivan - Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe
“Form does not necessarily follow function” “Function influence but does not dictate form”
-Antonio Gaudi - Eero Saarinen
“Art and Architecture, the new unity” “Architectural-form equals social-form”
- Walter Gropius - Eliel Saarinen (father of Eero)
“A house is a house” “Modern architecture need not to be Western”
- Louis Kahn - Kenzo Tange
"Architecture is the reaching out for the truth" “Form does not necessarily follow function”
-Louis Kahn - Antonio Gaudi
“Cube within a cube” "Form follows function- that has been misunderstood.
- Le Corbusier Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual
union"
"The house is a machine for living in" -Frank Lloyd Wright
- Le Corbusier
"Every great architect is- necessarily - a great poet.
“A bridge is like a house” He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his
- Robert Maillart (civil engr.) day, his age"
-Frank Lloyd Wright
"Less is a bore"
-Robert Venturi
"Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into
space"
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
"Architecture starts when you carefully put two
bricks together. There it begins"
-Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
"Make big plans; aim high in hope and work,
remembering that a noble, logical diagram once
recorded will not die"
-Daniel Burnham
"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's
blood"
-Daniel Burnham
"All architects want to live beyond their deaths"
-Philip Johnson
“Architecture must meet 3 requirements: strength,
beauty, and unity”
- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
