AR DICTUM 1

Alvar Aalto

1a

"Architecture mustcreate bldgs. w/c areconceived as a totalartistic expression."

1b

Breuer , Marcel

2a

" A Bldg. has straight geometricallines. Even when these lines arefree, it must always be evident thatthey have been studied & that theydid not spring up simultaneously."

2b

Breuer , Marcel

3a

" Nature & Architectureare two different things."

3b

Breuer , Marcel

4a

" Father of furnitureArchitecture "

4b

Coates , Wells

5a

" Simplicity &functionality is theessence of design."

5b

Khan , Louis

6a

"The artist is only avehicle for what always

been."6b

Khan , Louis

7a

" Man's first sense musthave been beauty, a

sense of total harmony."7b

Korukawa , Kusho

8a

" Architecture shouldhave the element ofgrowth and change "

8b

Korukawa , Kusho

9a

Architecture should not be a world to be thought of as an end to itself.It should be considered as a theater stagesetting where the leading actors were the peopleopened to the technique of designing .

9b

Latrobe , Benjamin H

10a

" Architecture form proceedfrom the character of theinstitution it was intended tohouse rather from books of design."

10b

Latrobe , Benjamin H

11a

" Forms & space wereconceived as being situated

in a landscape & mostinstances in a specific

landscape.11b

Maillart , Robert

12a

He developed the "Concrete Mushroom

Construction12b

Mendelsohn , Erich

13a

" Architecture is the onlytangible expression of

space, of w/c the humanmind is capable."

13b

Mendelsohn , Erich

14a

"Fluid Mass Theory"means plasticity of

concrete14b

Niemeyer , Oscar

15a

Architecture is not merely amatter of engineering but anexpression of the spirit of the

imagination of the poetry

15b

Perret , Auguste

16a

" Any project is bad if it ismore diff complicated toconstruct than necessary

16b

Perret , Auguste

17a

" truth is indespensible toArchitecture &

architectural lieconcepts."

17b

Richardson , Henry H

18a

" Continuity, permanence &power of a bldg. to embody aheroic attitude." He was thefirst exponent of the 2ndEclectic period in the U.S.A.

18b

Wagner , Otto

19a

" The essential basis of allnatural forms is

geometries."19b

Wagner , Otto

20a

" Our starting point forartistic creation is to be

found only in Modern Life." " Futuristic

Architectural Projects."20b

WALTER GROPIUS

21a

The ultimate goal of the new architecturewas the composite but inseparable work ofan art, in which the old dividing linebetween monumental and decorativeelements will have disappeared forever

21b

WALTER GROPIUS

22a

Architecture beginswhere engineering ends"

22b

MICHAEL GRAVES

23a

I don't believe in moralityin architecture.

23b

MARCUS VITRUVIUSPOLIO

24a

Nothing requires thearchitects care more than

the due proportions ofbuildings

24b

LUDWIG MIES VANDER ROHE

25a

Architecture starts whenyou carefully put two

bricks together. There itbegins.

25b

LOUIS SULLIVAN

26a

But the buildings identityresided in the ornament

26b

LOUIS KAHN

27a

Consider the momentousevent in architecture thewhen the wall parted and

the column became27b

LE CORBUSIER

28a

To create architecture isto put in order. Put whatin order? Function and

objects.28b

LE CORBUSIER

29a

Cube within a cube

29b

FRANK LLOYDWRIGHT

30a

The mother art isarchitecture. Without an

architecture of our own wehave no soul of our own

civilization.30b

FRANK LLOYDWRIGHT

31a

So here I stand before youpreaching organic

architecture: declaringorganic architecture to be the

modern ideal.31b

FRANK LLOYDWRIGHT

32a

All fine architecturalvalues, else not valuable.

32b

FRANK LLOYDWRIGHT

33a

Form follows function-thathas been misunderstood.

Form and function should beone, joined in a spiritual

union.33b

CESAR PELLI

34a

The desire to reach forthe sky runs every deep

in our psyche34b

ANTONIO GAUDI

35a

Color in certain places hasthe great value of making

the outlines and structuralplanes seem more energetic.

35b

ADOLF LOOS

36a

Supply and demandregulate architecture

form"36b

ADOLF LOOS

37a

Architecture arousessentiments in man. The

architects task therefore, is tomake those sentiments more

precise37b

ALVAR AALTO

38a

where the architects task is torestore a correct order of values.. itis still the architects duty toattempt to humanize age ofmachines. But this should be donewithout regards for form.

38b

ALVAR AALTO

39a

We should concentrate our worknot only to a separated housingproblem but housing involved inour daily work and all the otherfunctions of the city.

39b

JEAN NOUVEL

40a

I like to play witharchitecture! Its my

favorite game.40b

RENZO PIANO

41a

architects spend an entirelife with this unreasonable

idea that you can fightagainst gravity.

41b

TADAO ANDO

42a

All those involved in theconstruction of an architecturaldesign, from the architect to thebuilder, have an attachment to thearchitecture, although its difficultto quantify the attachment

42b

TADAO ANDO

43a

The speed of changemakes you wonder what

will become ofarchitecture.

43b

TADAO ANDO

44a

When you look at Japanese traditionarchitecture, you have to look atJapanese culture and its relationshipwith nature. You can actually live ina harmonious, close contact withnature - this very unique to Japan

44b

ROBERT VENTURI

45a

Forms accommodatesfunction.

45b

OSCAR NIEMEYER

46a

Architecture is invention.

46b

KENZO TANGE

47a

Modern architectureneed not to be Western

47b

WALTER GROPIUS

48a

Art and Architecture, thenew unity.

48b

ROBERT A. HEINLIEN

49a

Cheops law: nothing getsbuilt on schedule or

within a budget.49b

ROBERT MAILLART

50a

A bridge is like a house

50b

RICHARD JOSEFNEUTRA

51a

A house is like a flowerpot

51b

PIER LUIGI NERVI

52a

"Structural correctness, whichis identical with functional,technical & economic is anecessary & sufficient conditionof satisfactory aesthetic result."

52b

PETER BEHRENS

53a

When change needs, aska stranger

53b

MICHAEL GRAVES

54a

design as if you were achild.

54b