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SULLIVAN,LOUIS

Formfollowsfunction.

GAUDI,ANTONIO

Formdoesnotnecessarilyfollowfunction.

WRIGHT,FRANKLLOYD

Form follows function that has been

misunderstood.Formandfunctionshouldbe
one,joinedinaspiritualunion.
Everygreatarchitectisnecessarilyagreat
poet. He must be a great original interpreter
ofhistime,hisday,hisage.

GROPUIS,WALTER

ArtandArchitecture,thenewunity.

KAHN,LOUIS

Architecture is the reaching out for the

truth
Ahouseisahouse.

MAILLART,ROBERT
(February6,1872April5,1940)

Abridgeislikeahouse.

BURNHAM,DANIEL

Makebigplansaimhighinhopeandwork,
remembering that a noble, logical diagram
oncerecordedwillnotdie.
Make no little plans they have no magic to
stirmensblood.

SAARINEN,ELIEL
GottliebElielSaarinen

Beauty grows from necessity not from

repetitionofformulas.

(August20,1873July1,1950)

Architecturalformequalssocialform.

SAARINEN,EERO
(August20,1910September1,1961)

Function influence but does not dictate

form.

PERRET,AUGUSTE
(February12,1874February25,1954)

Truth is indispensible to Architecture &

architecturallieconcepts.

NIEMEYER,OSCAR
OscarRibeirodeAlmeidaNiemeyerSoaresFilho
(December15,1907December5,2012)

Formfollowsbeauty.

NERVI,PIERLUIGI
(June21,1891January9,1979)

Structuralcorrectness,whichisidentical
with functional, technical & economic is a

Architectureisinvention.

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necessary & sufficient condition of

satisfactoryaestheticresult.
LUDWIG,MIESVANDERROHE
MariaLudwigMichaelMies
(March27,1886August19,1969)

Lessismore.
Architecture is the will of an epoch
translatedintospace.
Architecture starts when you carefully put
twobrickstogether.Thereitbegins.

MENDELSOHN,ERICH
(March21,1887September15,1953)

Architecture
seizes
upon
space,
encompassesspaceandisspaceitself.
Architecture depends on the sensuous
seizurebymeansoftouchandsight.

LOOS,ADOLF
(December10,1870August23,1933)

Supply and demand regulate architecture

form

LECORBUSIER
CharlesdouardJeanneretGris
(October6,1887August27,1965)

ThehouseisaMachinetolivein.

LATROBE,BENJAMINH.
(May1,1764September3,1820)

A bldg. is the combination of different

geometricfigures.

JOHNSON,PHILIPCORTELYOU
(July8,1906January25,2005)

Architectureistheartofhowtowastespace

Cubewithinacube.

All architects want to live beyond their

deaths.
GROPIUS,WALTER
(May18,1883July5,1969)

Architecture
ends

begins

where

engineering

BREUER,MARCELLAJOS
(May21,1902July1,1981)

A Building has straight geometrical lines.

Evenwhentheselinesarefree,itmustalways
beevidentthattheyhavebeenstudied&that
theydidnotspringupsimultaneously.
Nature & Architecture are two different
things.
Architectureisasocialart.

POCIO,MARCUSVITRUVIUS

Architecture must meet 3 requirements:

strength,beauty,andunity.

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