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 ARCHITECT’S 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