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WorksheetsARCHITECTURAL DICTUMS 02
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 2hrs 40mins
Less is more, almost.
Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe
Lucio Costa
Marcel Lajos Breuer
Marcus Vitruvius Polio
I am neither a capitalist nor a socialist, I am not a religious or an atheist.
Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe
Lucio Costa
Marcel Lajos Breuer
Marcus Vitruvius Polio
Each one sees whatever he wishes to see.
Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe
Lucio Costa
Marcel Lajos Breuer
Marcus Vitruvius Polio
Architecture is a social art.
Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe
Lucio Costa
Marcel Lajos Breuer
Marcus Vitruvius Polio
Architecture must meet 3 requirements: Strength, Beauty, and Utilities.
Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe
Lucio Costa
Marcel Lajos Breuer
Marcus Vitruvius Polio
Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.
Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe
Lucio Costa
Marcel Lajos Breuer
Marcus Vitruvius Polio
The reality of a building is not the container but the space within.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Pierre Luigi Nervi
Oscar Niemeyer
Kenzo Tange
The architect is a molder of men, whether or not he consciously assumes responsibility.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Pierre Luigi Nervi
Oscar Niemeyer
Kenzo Tange
Nature spelled with a capital N the way you spell God with a capital G.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Pierre Luigi Nervi
Oscar Niemeyer
Kenzo Tange
Organic architecture: all parts are related to the whole as the whole was related to the parts; continuity and integrity.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Pierre Luigi Nervi
Oscar Niemeyer
Kenzo Tange
Architecture is a synthesis of the technology and art.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Pierre Luigi Nervi
Oscar Niemeyer
Kenzo Tange
Structural correctness is identical with functional, technical and economic truthfulness.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Pierre Luigi Nervi
Oscar Niemeyer
Kenzo Tange
Architecture must have liberty of forms.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Pierre Luigi Nervi
Oscar Niemeyer
Kenzo Tange
Modern architecture need not be western.
Leoh Ming Pei
Minoru Yamasaki
Otto Wagner
Kenzo Tange
Symbolisms and blasphemies.
Leoh Ming Pei
Richard Rogers
Otto Wagner
Kenzo Tange
Architecture is the expression of the past.
Leoh Ming Pei
Richard Rogers
Otto Wagner
Kenzo Tange
Design is how, form is what.
Leoh Ming Pei
Richard Rogers
Otto Wagner
Kenzo Tange
Nothing that is not practical can be beautiful.
Michael graves
Minoru Yamasaki
Otto Wagner
Adolf Loos
Essential basis of natural forms as geometries.
Michael graves
Minoru Yamasaki
Otto Wagner
Adolf Loos
Humanism.
Michael graves
Minoru Yamasaki
Otto Wagner
Adolf Loos
Design as if you are a child.
Michael graves
Minoru Yamasaki
Otto Wagner
Adolf Loos
Classical forms language of both the arctuated and trabeated models.
Michael graves
Minoru Yamasaki
Otto Wagner
Adolf Loos
Ornament equals crime.
Michael graves
Minoru Yamasaki
Otto Wagner
Adolf Loos
Lift the building in the ground.
Michael graves
Minoru Yamasaki
Otto Wagner
Adolf Loos
Modern ideas in modern dress.
Charles Renee Mackintosh
Robert Mailart
Erich Mendelsohn
Eero Saarinen
Design by living men for living men.
Charles Renee Mackintosh
Robert Mailart
Erich Mendelsohn
Eero Saarinen
Mushroom slab construction "a bridge is like a house".
Charles Renee Mackintosh
Robert Mailart
Erich Mendelsohn
Eero Saarinen
Fluid mass theory "architecture is the only tangible expression of space".
Charles Renee Mackintosh
Robert Mailart
Erich Mendelsohn
Eero Saarinen
Spiritual function is inseparable from practical function.
Eleil Saarinen
Richard Nuetra
Erich Mendelsohn
Eero Saarinen
Beauty grows from necessity, not from repetition.
Eleil Saarinen
Richard Nuetra
Erich Mendelsohn
Eero Saarinen
A house is like a flower pot.
Alvar Aalto (Hugo Alvar Henric)
Richard Nuetra
Rem Koolhaas
Otto Wagner
Most important material is man.
Alvar Aalto (Hugo Alvar Henric)
Richard Nuetra
Rem Koolhaas
Otto Wagner
The client is chaos.
Alvar Aalto (Hugo Alvar Henric)
Richard Nuetra
Rem Koolhaas
Otto Wagner
The integration of notion of cheapness to create sublime conditions.
Alvar Aalto (Hugo Alvar Henric)
Richard Nuetra
Rem Koolhaas
Otto Wagner
A town in a town.
Alvar Aalto (Hugo Alvar Henric)
Richard Nuetra
Rem Koolhaas
Otto Wagner
Form is the mystery that defies description but brings people pleasure.
Alvar Aalto (Hugo Alvar Henric)
Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret}
Antonio Gaudi
Marcel Bruer
A cube within a cube.
Walter Gropius
Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret}
Antonio Gaudi
Marcel Bruer
Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light.
Walter Gropius
Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret}
Antonio Gaudi
Marcel Bruer
Space and light and order. these are the things men need just as much they need bread or place to sleep.
Walter Gropius
Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret}
Antonio Gaudi
Marcel Bruer
"the styles‟ are a lie.
Walter Gropius
Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret}
Antonio Gaudi
Marcel Bruer
Straight lines belong to man, curved lines belong to God.
Walter Gropius
Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret}
Antonio Gaudi
Marcel Bruer
Nature and architecture are two different things.
Walter Gropius
Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret}
Antonio Gaudi
Marcel Bruer
Art and architecture, the new unity.
Walter Gropius
Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret}
Antonio Gaudi
Marcel Bruer
Machine is to be our modern medium of design.
Walter Gropius
Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret}
Antonio Gaudi
Marcel Bruer
Architecture built not for need, but for art.
Adolf Loos
Louis Khan
Paul Rudolph
Oscar Niemeyer
Automobile is the most important organizing element in the structure.
Adolf Loos
Louis Khan
Paul Rudolph
Oscar Niemeyer
Architecture is invention.
Adolf Loos
Louis Khan
Paul Rudolph
Oscar Niemeyer
Supply and demand regulate architecture form.
Adolf Loos
Louis Khan
Walter Gropius
Marcel Bruer
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
Adolf Loos
Louis Khan
Walter Gropius
Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe
Architecture begins where engineering ends.
Adolf Loos
Louis Khan
Walter Gropius
Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe
