Architects Dictums
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An architect dictum is a statement of opinion or belief of a person in designing buildings or structures. If you are a student or like knowing this kind of information then take the quiz. Enjoy.
- 1.“Form follows beauty.”
- A.
SAARINEN, EERO
- B.
PERRET, AUGUSTE
- C.
NIEMEYER, OSCAR
- 2.“Less is more.”
- A.
NERVI, PIER LUIGI
- B.
LUDWIG, MIES VAN DER ROHE
- C.
MAILLART , ROBERT
- 3.“The house is a Machine to live in.”
- A.
LE CORBUSIER
- B.
KORUKAWA, KUSHO
- C.
LUDWIG, MIES VAN DER ROHE
- 4.“Architecture is the art of how to waste space ”
- A.
GROPIUS, WALTER
- B.
JOHNSON, PHILIP CORTELYOU
- C.
ALVAR, AALTO
- 5.“Supply and demand regulate architecture form”
- A.
GROPIUS, WALTER
- B.
LE CORBUSIER
- C.
LOOS , ADOLF
- 6."Art and Architecture, the new unity"
- A.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
- B.
WALTER GROPIUS
- C.
FRANK GEHRY
- 7."Modern Architecture need not to be Western."
- A.
LE CORB
- B.
KENZO TANGE
- C.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
- 8."All architects want to live beyond their deaths."
- A.
PHILLIP JOHNSON
- B.
EERO SAARINEN
- C.
WALTER GROPUIS
- 9."Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood."
- A.
WALTER GROPUIS
- B.
KENZO TANGE
- C.
DANIEL BURNHAM
- 10."Architecture must meet three requirements; strength , beauty and unity."
- A.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
- B.
MARCUS VITRUVIUS POCIO
- C.
EERO SAARINEN
- 11.“Architecture is invention.”
- A.
SAARINEN, EERO
- B.
PERRET, AUGUSTE
- C.
NIEMEYER, OSCAR
- 12.“Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.”
- A.
LATROBE , BENJAMIN H.
- B.
LUDWIG, MIES VAN DER ROHE
- C.
MAILLART , ROBERT
- 13.“Architecture begins where engineering ends”
- A.
LOOS , ADOLF
- B.
BREUER, MARCEL LAJOS
- C.
GROPIUS, WALTER
- 14.“Architecture seizes upon space, encompasses space and is space itself.”
- A.
MENDELSOHN, ERICH
- B.
NERVI, PIER LUIGI
- C.
SAARINEN, ELIEL
- 15.“Form does not necessarily follow function.”
- A.
WRIGHT, FRANK LLOYD
- B.
GAUDI, ANTONIO
- C.
SAARINEN, ELIEL
- 16.“Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.”
- A.
NIEMEYER, OSCAR
- B.
NERVI, PIER LUIGI
- C.
LUDWIG, MIES VAN DER ROHE
- 17.“Cube within a cube.”
- A.
LOOS , ADOLF
- B.
LE CORBUSIER
- C.
LUDWIG, MIES VAN DER ROHE
- 18.“Truth is indispensible to Architecture & architectural lie concepts.”
- A.
PERRET, AUGUSTE
- B.
NIEMEYER, OSCAR
- C.
LE CORBUSIER
- 19.“Every great architect is –necessarily- a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.”
- A.
WRIGHT, FRANK LLOYD
- B.
GAUDI, ANTONIO
- C.
SULLIVAN, LOUIS
- 20.“Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.”
- A.
BURNHAM, DANIEL
- B.
MAILLART, ROBERT
- C.
NERVI, PIER LUIGI
- 21.“Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.”
- A.
LUDWIG, MIES VAN DER ROHE
- B.
POCIO, MARCUS VITRUVIUS
- C.
JOHNSON, PHILIP CORTELYOU
- 22.“A bldg. is the combination of different geometric figures.”
- A.
MENDELSOHN, ERICH
- B.
GROPIUS, WALTER
- C.
LATROBE , BENJAMIN H.
- 23.“Architecture is a social art.”
- A.
BREUER, MARCEL LAJOS
- B.
LUDWIG, MIES VAN DER ROHE
- C.
SAARINEN, EERO
- 24.“Form follows function- that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.”
- A.
WRIGHT, FRANK LLOYD
- B.
NIEMEYER, OSCAR
- C.
LUDWIG, MIES VAN DER ROHE
- 25.“Nature & Architecture are two different things.”
- A.
BREUER, MARCEL LAJOS
- B.
LE CORBUSIER
- C.
MENDELSOHN, ERICH
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