“Ornament is a crime and all ornamentation must be rejected”

“Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of
architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfills a function is to be excluded from the domain of art”

“Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problem we split the possibilities to
make good building art.”

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“Form does not necessarily follow function”

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“Truth is indispensable to Architecture & architectural lie concepts.”

“A building is the combination of different geometric figures.”

“We called architects of the future not its victims.”

“Starting with holes.”

“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood.”
“Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.”

“Drawing architecture is a schizoid act: it involves reducing the world into a piece of paper.”

“Function influence but does not dictate form.”

from necessity not from repetition of formulas.”

“Form equals social-form.”

“Architecture depends on the sensuous seizure by means to touch and sight.”

“Architecture seizures upon space, encompasses space and is space itself.”
“Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.”
“Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses, the client made me do this. The city made me do this. Oh, the budget. I
don’t believe that anymore.
“An idea is salvation by imagination.”
“Think simple as my old master used to say – meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.”
“The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be
impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the day of your life.”
“Architecture is organic.”
“Every great architect is necessarily – a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.”
“Form follows function – that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.”

“I think architecture has to be a gift.”

“Each new situation requires a new architecture.”
“It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have
insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.”
“It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.”

“Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the
future.”
“The city must be subject to growth, decay and renewal.”
“Modern Architecture not need to be Western.”

(Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) [The crow like one]

“The house is a machine for living in.”
“Architecture or Revolution.”
“The exterior of the building is the result of the interior.”