INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTS
ARCHITECT PHILOSOPHY/IDEAS
ALVAR AALTO Architecture must create
buildings which are conceived as
a total artistic expression.
PETER BEHRENS When a time comes for a change
the outsider is needed because
he has preserved the freshness
of vision required to see what
changes are necessary.
PIETRO BELLUSCHI
MARCEL BREUER A building has a straight
geometrical lines even when
these lines are free it must
always be evident that they have
been studied and that they did
not spring up spontaneously.
Nature and architecture are two
different things.
FELIX CANDELA Thin shell construction
SERGE CHERMAYEFF A building must work.
WELLS COATES Simplicity and functionality is the
essence of design.
LUCIO COSTA
EDWIN MAXWELL FRY Pioneer of Modernism in England
BUCKMINSHTER Geodesic Dome which is based
FULLER on the principle of Spaced Frame
ANTONIO GAUDI Form does not necessarily have
to follow function.
CASS GILBERT Bow Art (Eclectic) Architect
WALTER GROPIUS Founder of Bauhaus
Art and technology, the new
unity
WALLACE HARRISON Head of the Design Team for
Secretariat and Assembly Bldg
PHILLIP JOHNSON Invented the term “International
Style”
LOUIS KAHN Searching for what a material
wants to be.
BENJAMIN LATROBE Building is a combination
IMPORTANT WORKS
Paimio Sanatorium
Town Hall of Saynatsalo
Pension Bank
EAG Turbine Factory
Equitable Building, Portland
Pan-American Building, NY
Harnismacher House,
Weisbaden
Pavilion for the Royal Show,
Bristol
Whitney Museum of American
Arts, New York
Church of our Lady of
Miracles
Radiation Institute
Lawn Road Flats, Hampstead
Master Plan for Iroquois
Ministry of Health Building,
Rio de Janeiro
City Plan for Brazilia
Impington Village College
Ibadan University College
Union Tank Car Repair Shop
US Pavilion
Casa Vicens
Sagrada Familia – like in
anthill tower
Casa Mila – waves in front
Woolworth Building –
considered to be one of the
first high rise building in USA
Fagus Work
Deutscher Werkbund
New Civic Center-Boston
Rockyfeller Center
Trylon and the Perisphere
Glass House, New Canaan
Seagrams Building, NY
William Proctor Museum, NY
Yale Art Gallery
Richards Medical Center
Unitarian Church
of Capitol, Richmond, Virginia
 different geometric figures. Bank of Pennsylvanai
Sedgely House
LE CORBUSIER The house is a machine to live Le Pavilion de L’Esprit
in. Nouveau
Villa Savoye
Swiss Pavilion, Paris
ADOLF LOOS Ornament equals crime Stainer House, Vienna
Advocator of Monumentalism and Moller House
believer of Functionalism Ruffer House
ERICH MENDELSOHN Architecture is the only tangible Einstein Tower, Potsdam
expression of space of which the Metal Worker’s Union
human mind is capable. Columbushaus
LUDWIG MIES VAN The form must be created from German Pavilion
DER ROHE the nature of our work with the Tugendhat House
method of our time yet to refuse Illinois Institute of
aestheticism is another Technology
aestheticism/
RICHARD JOSEPH The most important material is
NEUTRA man.