Architectural Dictums

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood

• Daniel Burnham

• Le Corbusier

• Louis Kahn

• Philip Johnson

Form does not necessarily follow function

• LOUIS SULLIVAN

• FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

• ANTONIO GAUDI

• PHILIP JOHNSON

The house is a machine for living in

• Robert Venturi

• Kenzo Tange

• Frank Lloyd Wright

• Le Corbusier

Forms accommodates function

• Robert Venturi

• Walter Gropius

• Le Corbusier

• Philip Johnson

Function influence but does not dictate form

• Zaha Hadid

• Eero Saarinen

• Frank Gehry

• Richard Meier

Architecture is the art of how to waste space

• Philip Johnson

• Walter Gropius

• Louis Sullivan

• Aalto Alvar

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

• Daniel Burnham

• Frank Ghery

• Mies Van Der Rohe Ludwig

• Antonio Gaudi

Architecture must meet three requirements; strength , beauty and unity

• Marcus Vitruvius Pocio

• Louis Kahn

• Frank Lloyd Wright

• Eero Saarinen

Architecture begins where engineering ends

• Walter Gropius

• Adolf Loos

• Oscar Niemeyer

• Pier Luigi Nervi

A house is like a flower pot

• Alvar Aalto

• Eero Saarinen

• Richard Josef Neutra

• Kenzo Tange