( LUIS SULLIVAN )

Form follows function

( LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE )

Less is more
"Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space"
"Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins"

( ROBERT VENTURI )
Less is a bore

Unity disguised as chaos- complexity & contradiction is often what makes works
of art both exciting & profound.

( RICHARD JOSEF NEUTRA )

A house is like a flower pot

( CAESAR HOMER CONCIO )

The structure must be well oriented

( KENZO TANGE )
Modern architecture need not be western

( ADOLF LOOS )
Ornament equals crime

( BUCKMINSTER FULLER )
A house is a machine for living

( FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT )

International style as Flat chested
"Form follows function- that has been misunderstood. Form and function should
be one, joined in a spiritual union"
"Every great architect is- necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original
interpreter of his time, his day, his age"

( ELIEL SAARINEN )
Beauty grows from necessity, not from repetition of formulas
Architectural-form equals social-form

( MICHAEL GRAVES )
Design as if you were a child

( VITRUVIUS )
Treatise De Architectura

(Le Corbusier )
Cube within a cube
"The house is a machine for living in"

(Walter Gropius)
Art and Architecture, the new unity

(Antonio Gaudi)
Form does not necessarily follow function

(Louis Kahn)
"Architecture is the reaching out for the truth"
A house is a house

(Robert Maillart)
A bridge is like a house

(Daniel Burnham)
"Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical
diagram once recorded will not die"
"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood"

(Eero Saarinen)

Function influence but does not dictate form

(Philip Johnson)

"All architects want to live beyond their deaths"

(Marcus Vitruvius Pocio)

Architecture must meet 3 requirements: strength, beauty, and unity