"Less is
more"
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
1929
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"God is
in the details"
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
1959
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"Less
is a bore"
Robert Venturi
1986
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"Form follows
function"
Louis Kahn
1959
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"Architecture
is the will of an epoch translated into space"
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
1959
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"Architecture
is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods,
and men, to put man into possession of his own earth"
Frank Lloyd Wright
1930
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"Take care
of the luxuries
and the necessities will take care of themselves"
Le Corbusier
1961
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"I prefer
drawing to talking. Drawing is faster,
and leaves less room for lies"
Le Corbusier
1961
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"Space
and light and order. Those are the things that men need
just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep"
Le Corbusier
recalled on his death August 27, 1965
"The home should be the
treasure chest of living"
Le Corbusier
recalled on his death
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"Architecture is the learned
game, correct and magnificant, of forms assembled in the
light"
Le Corbusier
recalled on his death
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"It is not an individual
act, architecture. You
have to consider your client. Only out of that can you produce
great architecture. You cannot work in the abstract"
I.M. Pei
1978
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"The purpose
of architecture is to shelter and enhance man's life on
earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence"
Eero Saarinen
1968
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"To me,
the drawn language is a very revealing language, one can
see in a few lines whether a man is really an architect"
Eero Saarinen
1977
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"The dialogue
between client and architect is about as intimate as any
conversation you can have, because when you are talking
about building a house, you're talking about dreams"
Robert A. M. Stern
1985
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"The great
thing about being an architect is
that you can walk into your dreams"
Harold E. Wagoner
1986
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"All architecture
is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space
that contains, cuddles, exalts or stimulates the persons
in that space"
Philip Johnson
1975
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"Architects
are pretty much high- class whores. We can turn down projects
the way they can turn down some clients, but we both have
to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business"
Philip Johnson
1980
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"I hate
vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?"
Philip Johnson
1980
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"Architecture
begins where engineering ends"
Walter Gropius
1978
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"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"
R. Buckminster Fuller
1985
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"The physician
can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise
his clients to plant vines"
Frank Lloyd Wright
1953
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"No stream
rises higher than its source. What ever man might build
could never express or reflect more than he was. He could
record neither more nor less than he had learned of life
when the buildings were built"
Frank Lloyd Wright
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"Get in
the habit of analysis- Analysis will in time enable synthesis
to become your habit of mind"
Frank Lloyd Wright
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"When I
examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the
conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me
than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge"
Albert Einstein
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"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 a language vernacular and time--- is
he who shall create poems in stone."
Louis Sullivan
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