ARCHITECTS DICTUM test with
correct answers
ADOLF LOOS - CORRECT ANSWER-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
ADOLF LOOS - CORRECT ANSWER-Ornament is a crime and all ornamentation must be rejected
ALVAR AALTO - CORRECT ANSWER-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.
ANTONIO GAUDI - CORRECT ANSWER-Form does not necessarily follow function.
AUGUSTE PERRET - CORRECT ANSWER-"Truth is indispensible to Architecture & architectural lie concepts."
BENJAMIN H. LATROBE - CORRECT ANSWER-"A bldg. is the combination of different geometric figures."
BUCKMINSTER FULLER - CORRECT ANSWER-"We called architects of the future not its victims"
"Starting with holes"
DANIEL BURNHAM - CORRECT ANSWER-Make big plans; aim high in hope and hope and work, remembering that a
noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.
DANIEL BURNHAM - CORRECT ANSWER-Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir mens blood.
EDUARDO SOUTO DE MOURA - CORRECT ANSWER-Drawing architecture is a schizoid act: it involves reducing the
world into a piece of paper.
EERO SAARINEN - CORRECT ANSWER-Function influence but does not dictate form
ELIEL SAARINEN - CORRECT ANSWER-"Beauty grows from necessity not from repetition of formulas."
ELIEL SAARINEN - CORRECT ANSWER-Architecture - form equals social-form
ERICH MENDELSOHN - CORRECT ANSWER-"Architecture depends on the sensuous seizure by means of touch and
sight."
ERICH MENDELSOHN - CORRECT ANSWER-"Architecture seizes upon space, encompasses space and is space
itself."
FRANK GEHRY - CORRECT ANSWER-Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness
FRANK GEHRY - CORRECT ANSWER-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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT - CORRECT ANSWER-An idea is salvation by imagination.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT - CORRECT ANSWER-Architecture is Organic.
correct answers
ADOLF LOOS - CORRECT ANSWER-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
ADOLF LOOS - CORRECT ANSWER-Ornament is a crime and all ornamentation must be rejected
ALVAR AALTO - CORRECT ANSWER-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.
ANTONIO GAUDI - CORRECT ANSWER-Form does not necessarily follow function.
AUGUSTE PERRET - CORRECT ANSWER-"Truth is indispensible to Architecture & architectural lie concepts."
BENJAMIN H. LATROBE - CORRECT ANSWER-"A bldg. is the combination of different geometric figures."
BUCKMINSTER FULLER - CORRECT ANSWER-"We called architects of the future not its victims"
"Starting with holes"
DANIEL BURNHAM - CORRECT ANSWER-Make big plans; aim high in hope and hope and work, remembering that a
noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.
DANIEL BURNHAM - CORRECT ANSWER-Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir mens blood.
EDUARDO SOUTO DE MOURA - CORRECT ANSWER-Drawing architecture is a schizoid act: it involves reducing the
world into a piece of paper.
EERO SAARINEN - CORRECT ANSWER-Function influence but does not dictate form
ELIEL SAARINEN - CORRECT ANSWER-"Beauty grows from necessity not from repetition of formulas."
ELIEL SAARINEN - CORRECT ANSWER-Architecture - form equals social-form
ERICH MENDELSOHN - CORRECT ANSWER-"Architecture depends on the sensuous seizure by means of touch and
sight."
ERICH MENDELSOHN - CORRECT ANSWER-"Architecture seizes upon space, encompasses space and is space
itself."
FRANK GEHRY - CORRECT ANSWER-Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness
FRANK GEHRY - CORRECT ANSWER-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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT - CORRECT ANSWER-An idea is salvation by imagination.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT - CORRECT ANSWER-Architecture is Organic.
