Behrens, Peter - Germany

"When time comes for a change, the "outsider" is needed because it has preserved the freshness of vision required to see what changes are necessary, where as the specialist may prove to be too inflexible".

- He influence the works of ____ and ____.

Famous work: AEG Turbine Factory (Industrial Bldg)

Breuer Marcel - Hungary

Father of Furniture Architecture.

"A building has straight geometrical lines. Even when these lines are free, it must always be evident that they have been studdied and that they did not spring up simultaneously".

"Nature and Architecture are two different things".

"Architecture is a social art"

Candela , Felix - Mexico

Famous for "THIN SHELL STRUCTURE"

He is one of the most conceete Engineer of the age.

Coates, Well - England

"Simplicity and Functionality is the essence of design".

Fuller, Buckminster - USA

"Invented the "Geodesic Dome" based in principle; space frame in many different materials like timber plywood, aluminu, paper board, prestressed concrete and even bamboo.

Antonio Gaudi - Spain

"Function has today an increasing variety of forms to choose from".

When you limit architecture to aesthetic experiment, you're making technology an end instead of mean".

He is the "father of Fantastic Architecture".

He loves to use hyperboloids & paraboloids because he asserted that the straight line belings to man and the curved line belongs to God.

Cass, Gilbert - U.S

He followed Beaux - Arts mode which refers to historical and eclectic design on a monumental decade"

Walter Gropius - Germany

- he founded the Bauhaus.

- He assembled "The architectural Collaborate (TAC) which was made up of young architects, to put into effects his cherished concept of group practiced.

"Art and Architecture, the New Unity".

Victor, Horta

- His career reflects the movement of Art Nouveau

Philip Johnson, Cortelyou

"You can not know history"

Unvented the term "International Style"

He is responsible for the 1932 exhibition of modern arch.

His works were influenced by Mies Van Der Rohe

Luis Khan - U.S

"What the bldg. Wanted to be ".

"Man lives to express".

"The artist is only a vehicle for what always been".

"Man's first sense must have been beauty, a sense of total harmony".

Kusho Korukawa - Japan

"Architecture should have the element of growth and change".

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

Benjamin Latrobe H. - U.S

"A bldg. is the combination of different geometric figures".

"Architecture form proceed from the character of the institution it was intended to house rather from books of design".

"Form & space were conceived as being situated in a land-scape & most instances in a specific landscape".

Le Corbusier (Charles Edouard Jeanneret) - Switzerland

"The house is a Machine to live in."

"Architecture is masterly, correct & magnificent play of masses brought together into light."

"Modular System-" also known as "Divine Proportion"

It is a grid base on the stature of man, 89" in length & 112 cu.in of space are standard of a 6 foot man. Also "Cubism".

Le Corbusier (Charles Edouard Jeanneret) - Switzerland

"The house is a Machine to live in."

"Architecture is masterly, correct & magnificent play of masses brought together into light."

"Modular System-" also known as "Divine Proportion"

It is a grid base on the stature of man, 89" in length & 112 cu.in of space are standard of a 6 foot man. Also "Cubism".

Adolf Loos - Austria (influenced by Le Corbusier)

"Ornament Equals Crime"- he was against the idea of fanciful designs.

He was an anti-ornamentalist, a believer of Engineering & Plumbing.

He was an adherent of Monumentalism, thus, when he joined a comoetition for the design of the Chicago Tribute Tower, he designed it in the form of a "Huge Doric Column".

Charles Rennie Mackintosh - Scotland

He was the principal exponent of "British Art Nouveau".

He believed in absence of external decoration & subtiety of proportion in structure.

Robert Maillart

"A bridge is like a house. Each bridge & each house is a special case; each must be constructed & shaped accdg.vto the environment w/ it must cope & the function it is to have".

He developed the "Concrete Mushroom Construction"- (the technique involves a post & a mushroom top spreading from it that are one inseparable concrete unit.)

Erich Medelsohn - Germany

"Architecture is the only tangible expression of space, of which the human mind is capable".

"Architecture seizes upon space, encompasses space & is space itself."

"Architecture dependson the sensous seizure by means of touch & sight."

"Fluid mass theory" means plasticity of concrete

Mies Van der Rohe, Ludwigg

"Reason is the first principle of all human work".

"Less is more & God is in the details."

"He rejects-"form follows function".

"Pure form". He believed that truth is beauty, expressed by the clarity of straight lines reflecting surfaces. More on skyscaper designs.

Mies Van der Rohe, Ludwigg

"Reason is the first principle of all human work".

"Less is more & God is in the details."

"He rejects-"form follows function".

"Pure form". He believed that truth is beauty, expressed by the clarity of straight lines reflecting surfaces. More on skyscaper designs.

Luigi Pierre Nervi - Italy

"Sturctural correctness, which is identical with functional, technical & economic is a necessary & sufficient condition of satisfactory aesthetic result."

Oscar Niemeyer - Rio de Janeiro

"Architecture is not merely a matter of engineering but an expression of the spirit of the imagination of the poetry".

"To avoid repetition of already known forms and solutions an architectural work must contain basically a minimum of creative ability and must convey a personal contibution of the architect.

Example: Presidents Palace

I.M Pei (Ieoh Ming Pei)

Notable for Urban Renewal

I.M Pei (Ieoh Ming Pei)

Notable for Urban Renewal

Auguste Perret

"Any project is bad if it is more different complicated to construct than necessary."

"Truth is indespensible to Architecture & Architectural lie concepts."

Architect: Paul Rudolph Wong & Ouyang (HK) Ltd.

Name: Lippo Tower China Bank, Hongkong

Name: Center Pompidou, London

Architect: Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers and Gianfranco Franchini

Architectural style: Postmodern / high-tech

Location: Paris, France

Name: London City Hall

Architect: Norman Foster

Name: Pompidou Center, METZ

Architect: Shigeru Ban

Kaufman House - "Falling Water"

Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright

Henry Richard - U.S

"He believe in monumentability because this gave 3 things; ____, ____, and ____.

to embody a heroic attitude".

"He was the first exponent of the 2nd Eclectic period in the U.S.A

Paul Rudolph - U.S

Former dean of Architecture in Yale University

Building sample : Lippo Bldg. Hongkong

Eero Saarinen - Finland

"Function influence but does not dictate form,"

"Spiritual function is inseparable from practical function,"

He is the son of Eliel Saarinen; he invented "REFLECTIVE GLASS"

Eero Saarinen - Finland

"Function influence but does not dictate form,"

"Spiritual function is inseparable from practical function,"

He is the son of Eliel Saarinen; he invented "REFLECTIVE GLASS"

Eliel Saarinen - Finland

"Beauty grows for necessity not for repetition of formulas."

He built many railways starion in Europe.

Owings Merill Skidmore - U.S

Owings Merill Skidmore - U.S

Louis Sullivan - U.S

"Form Follows Function."

Knows as the "Father of Modern Architecture", in U.S

He was the first to give logic and form to the steel skyscraper; the beginning of modern architecture

Kenzo Tange - Japan

"Modern Architecture need not be Western."

"City must be subject to growth decay & renewal."

He won International Competition for replanning Skopje in Yugoslavia, also master planner of International exhibition of 1970 at Osaka.

Example works: Tokyo Plan 1960 -he extended the City over the bay

Vitruvius (Marcus Vitruvius Polio) - Rome

"Architecture must meet 3 requirement: ___,___&____.

Example works: Roman Orders and Capitals

Otto Wagner - Vienna

"Nothing that is not practical can be beautiful."

"The essential basis of all natural forms is geometries."

"Our starting point for artistic creation is to be found only in Modern Life."

"Futuristic Architectural Projects."

Harrison Wallace

He introduced "Thermal Glass" at UN Secretariat Bldg.

Famous for his "Tylon & Perisphere" for the 1939 New York's tTrade Fair

Sir Christoper Wren - England

"He favored competition by addition rather than by subdivision."

After the Great fire in London

Frank Lloyd Wright- U.S

"Organic Building."

"Nature is the determinant in the conceptualization of Human Environment."

"The building must not only be on the ground but off the ground."

"Sace in motion."

Frank Lloyd Wright- U.S

"Organic Building."

"Nature is the determinant in the conceptualization of Human Environment."

"The building must not only be on the ground but off the ground."

"Space in motion."

Minoru Yamasaki - U.S

"Humanism."

His concept of Architecture is one of "Serenity and Delight."

1st Tallest Building in the World

Location: Dubai

Height: 828 meters

Architect: Skidmore Owings (SOM) & Merrill

7th Tallest Building in the World

Location: Kuala Lumpur

Height: 452 meters

Architect: Cesar Pelli & Asso.

Architect: Foster & Partners

Architect: Norman Foster

Architect: Hazel Wong

Architect: Tom Wright

Architect: Dennis Lau & Ng Chun Man Architects