ARCHITECTS DICTUM

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space

The city must be subject to growth, decay and renewal.

Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.

"Form follows beauty."

. Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle.

Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses, The client made me do this. The city made me do this. Oh, the budget. I don't believe that anymore.

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness

Forms accommodates function.

Less is bore.

Unity disguised as chaos- complexity and contradiction are often what make works of art both exciting and profound

I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.

Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.

architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.

Each new situation requires a new architecture.

I think architecture has to be a gift.

Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problem we split the possibilities to make good building art.

Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfills a function is to be excluded from the domain of art

Ornament is a crime and all ornamentation must be rejected

Form does not necessarily follow function.

"Truth is indispensible to Architecture & architectural lie concepts."

"A bldg. is the combination of different geometric figures."

"We called architects of the future not its victims" "Starting with holes"

Drawing architecture is a schizoid act: it involves reducing the world into a piece of paper.

Function influence but does not dictate form

Architecture - form equals social-form

"Beauty grows from necessity not from repetition of formulas."

"Architecture seizes upon space, encompasses space and is space itself."

"Architecture depends on the sensuous seizure by means of touch and sight."

Make big plans; aim high in hope and hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir mens blood.

Every great architect is necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

Architecture is Organic.

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the day of your life.

Think simples as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

An idea is salvation by imagination.

form and function are one"

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

The house is a machine for living in.

Architecture or Revolution

the exterior of the building is the result of the interior.

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth

Every time a student walks past and really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.

"A house is a house."

Forms follows function

Less is more.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space

God is in the details.

It is better to be good than to be original.

Less is more, almost

I am neither a capitalist nor a socialist, I am not a religious or an atheist.

Each one sees whatever he wishes to see

Architecture is a social art."

Architecture must meet 3 requirements: Strength, Beauty, and Utilities

Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.

"the reality of a building is not the container but the space within"

the architect is a molder of men, whether or not he consciously assumes responsibility"

nature spelled with a capital N the way you spell God with a capital G"

organic architecture: all parts are related to the whole as the whole was related to the parts; continuity and integrity"

"architecture is a synthesis of the technology and art"

structural correctness is identical with functional, technical and economic truthfulness

architecture must have liberty of forms"

"modern architecture need not be western"

"symbolisms and blasphemies"

"architecture is the expression of the past

design is how, form is what"

"nothing that is not practical can be beautiful"

"essential basis of natural forms as geometries"

"humanism"

"design as if you are a child"

classical forms language of both the arctuated and trabeated models"

"ornament equals crime"

"lift the building in the ground"

"modern ideas in modern dress"

"design by living men for living men"

mushroom slab construction "a bridge is like a house"

fluid mass theory "architecture is the only tangible expression of space"

"spiritual function is inseparable from practical function"

"beauty grows from necessity, not from repetition"

"a house is like a flower pot"

most important material is man"

"the client is chaos"

"the integration of notion of cheapness to create sublime conditions"

"a town in a town"

"form is the mystery that defies description but brings people pleasure"

"a cube within a cube"

"architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light"

"space and light and order. these are the things men need just as much they need bread or place to sleep

"the „styles‟ are a lie"

"straight lines belong to man, curved lines belong to God"

"nature and architecture are two different things"

"art and architecture, the new unity"

machine is to be our modern medium of design

architecture built not for need, but for art"

"automobile is the most important organizing element in the structure

Architecture is invention

Supply and demand regulate architecture form"

"Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins."

"Architecture begins where engineering ends"