ARCHITECT'S DICTUM

strive to be forward thinking and always consider the design and future use.

• Eliel Saarinen

• Eero Saarinen

• Ieoh ming Pei

• Jorn Utzon

Public buildings are more important than buildings. They make a city alive

• Daniel Libeskind

• Norman Foster

• Leon Battista Alberti

• Otto Wagner

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light

• Harold Wagoner

• Michael Graves

• Le Corbusier

• Kisho Kurokawa

You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony

• Zaha Hadid

• Julia Morgan

• Marcel Breuer

• Renzo Piano

Design a structure that work well with the surroundings

• Bruce Graham

• Julia Morgan

• Pierre Luigi Nervi

• Kenzo Tange

People make natural associations with form, color and the composition elements while decoration and detailing help communicate a building's purpose

• Eliel Saarinen

• Michael Graves

• Eero Saarinen

• Ludwig Mies Van de Rohe

Our starting point for artistic creation is to be found only in modern life

• Otto Wagner

• Daniel Burnham

• Winston Churchill

• Robert Venturi

The biggest mistake made by Architects today has to be not thinking about the context in which they're working

• Kisho Kurokawa

• Renzo Piano

• Rem Koolhas

• Richard Meier

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space

• Minoru Yamasaki

• Buckminister Fuller

• Philip Johnson

• IM Pei

Great artists need great client

• IM Pei

• Kenzo Tange

• Toyo Ito

• Minoru Yamasaki