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Famous Architect Dictums

This document contains famous quotes and dictums from several influential architects, including Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Buckminster Fuller, Daniel Burnham, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Some of the key ideas expressed are that form should follow function (Sullivan), architecture reflects the time and culture in which it was built (Wright), and that architecture is a means for humans to inhabit and control their environment through imagination and skillful use of materials (Wright).

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Famous Architect Dictums

This document contains famous quotes and dictums from several influential architects, including Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Buckminster Fuller, Daniel Burnham, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Some of the key ideas expressed are that form should follow function (Sullivan), architecture reflects the time and culture in which it was built (Wright), and that architecture is a means for humans to inhabit and control their environment through imagination and skillful use of materials (Wright).

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FAMOUS ARCHITECT DICTUMS

ARCHITECTURE MUST MEET 3 REQUIREMENTS:


FORM EVER FOLLOWS FUNCTION.
-LOUIS SULLIVAN

OUR ARCHITECTURE REFLECTS TRULY AS A MIRROR.


- LOUIS SULLIVAN

"THE ARCHITECT WHO COMBINES IN HIS BEING THE POWERS OF VISION, OF IMAGINATION, OF
INTELLECT, OF SYMPATHY WITH HUMAN NEED AND THE POWER TO INTERPRET THEM IN ALANGUAGE
VERNACULAR AND TIME--- IS HE WHO SHALLCREATE POEMS IN STONE."
- LOUIS SULLIVAN

FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION


- LOUIS SULLIVAN

"FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION- THAT HAS BEEN MISUNDERSTOOD. FORM AND FUNCTION SHOULD BE
ONE,JOINED IN A SPIRITUAL UNION"
-FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

ARCHITECTURE IS ORGANIC
- FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

THE THING ALWAYS H APPENS THAT YOU REALLY BELIEVE IN; AND THE BELIEF IN A THING MAKES IT
HAPPEN.
-FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

A DOCTOR CAN BURY HIS MISTAKES BUT AN ARCHITECT CAN ONLY ADVISE HIS CLIE
NT TO PLANT VINES.
-FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

THE GOOD BUILDING


IS NOT ONE THAT HURTS THE LANDSCAPE, BUT ONE WHICH MAKES THE LANDSCAPE MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN IT
WAS BEFORE THE BUILDIN
G WAS BUILT.
-FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

"ARCHITECTURE IS THE TRIUMPH OF HUMAN IMAGINATION OVER MATERIALS, METHODS, AND MEN,
TO PUT MAN INTOPOSSESSION OF HIS OWN EARTH"
-FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

AN ARCHITECTS MOST USE


FUL TOOLS ARE AN ERASER AT THE DRAFTING BOARD, AND A WRECKING BAR A
T THE SITE.
-FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
"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

ALL FINE ARCHITECTU


RAL VALUES ARE HUMAN VALES, ELSE
NOT VALUABLE.
-FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

I KNOW THE PRICE O


F SUCCESS: DEDICATION, HARD WORK AND AN UNREMITTING DEVOTION TO THE THINGS YOU WANT
TO SEE HAPPEN.
-FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

WE ARE
CALLED TO BE ARCHITECTS OF THE FUTURE, NOT ITS
VICTIMS.
-RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER

DOING MORE WITH LESS.


-RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER

"WHEN I AM WORKING ON A PROBLEM, I NEVER THINK ABOUT BEAUTY... BUT WHEN I HAVE FINISHED,
IF THE SOLUTION IS NOT BEAUTIFUL, I KNOW IT IS WRONG"
-BUCKMINSTER FULLER

"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

FORM DOES NOT NECES


SARILY FOLLOW FUNCTI
ON
-ANTONIO GAUDI

THOSE WHO LOOK FOR


THE LAWS OF NATURE AS A SUPPORT FOR THEIR NEW WORKS COLLABORATE WITH THE
CREATOR.
-ANONIO GAUDI

"ARCHITECTURE IS THE REACHING OUT FOR THE TRUTH"


-LOUIS KAHN

A HOUSE IS A HOUSE
- LOUIS KAHN
A BRIDGE IS LIKE A HOUSE
-
ROBERT MAILLART

FUNCTION INFLUENCE
BUT DOES NOT DICTATE
FORM
- EERO SAARINEN

ARCHITECTURAL
-FORM EQUALS SOCIAL-
FORM
-ELIEL SAARINEN

"ALL ARCHITECTS WANT TO LIVE BEYOND THEIR DEATHS"


-PHILIP JOHNSON

GOD IS IN THE DETAILS

-LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

ARCHITECTURE STARTS WHEN YOU CAREFULLY PUT TWOBRICKS TOGETHER. THERE IT BEGINS.

-LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

"ARCHITECTURE IS THE WILL OF AN EPOCH TRANSLATED INTOSPACE"


-LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

"ARCHITECTURE STARTS WHEN YOU CAREFULLY PUT TWOBRICKS TOGETHER. THERE IT BEGINS"
-LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE

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