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
- Robert Maillart
“Less is more”
“Less is more”
- Ludwig Mies Van de Rohe
"Less is a bore"
"Less is a bore"
-Robert Venturi
"Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space"
"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"
"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"
"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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