Famous Architect Dictums

Architects dictum is a statement of opinion or belief of the person in designing building or structures.
Here are some famous architect dictums:

“Form follows function”
- Louis Sullivan

“Form does not necessarily follow function” - Antonio Gaudi

"Form follows function- that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union"
-Frank Lloyd Wright

“Art and Architecture, the new unity”
- Walter Gropius

"Architecture is the reaching out for the truth"
-Louis Kahn

“A house is a house”
- Louis Kahn

“Cube within a cube”
- Le Corbusier

"The house is a machine for living in"
- Le Corbusier
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“A bridge is like a house”
- Robert Maillart

“Less is more”
- Ludwig Mies Van de Rohe

"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

“Function influence but does not dictate form”
- Eero Saarinen

“Architectural-form equals social-form”
-Eliel Saarinen

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“Modern architecture need not to be Western”
- Kenzo Tange

"All architects want to live beyond their deaths"
-Philip Johnson

“Architecture must meet 3 requirements: strength, beauty, and unity”
- Marcus Vitruvius Pocio

"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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6 comments:

  1. Hey blogwalking as well! Thanks for dropping by. ^^

    This is my favourite quote:
    "Architecture must meet 3 requirements: strength, beauty, and unity."

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  2. I like these,
    "Form follows function- that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union"
    -Frank Lloyd Wright
    and this
    "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.
    thank you for sharing ^^
    http://www.pixeledheart.uni.cc

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  3. dun pa rin ako sa sinabi ni vitruvius...classic un yeh....!artes est potestas!..(art is power!)

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  4. thanks for dropping by my blog. i love architecture as well. awesome blog you have here :)

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  5. IT DOESNT MATTER IF WHAT DICTUMS IS CORRECT AS LONG AS FORM FOLLOW FUNCTION.. THATS THE REAL DEAL....

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