history of architecture

• Louis Sullivan: 'The building's identity resided in the ornament.'
• Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: 'God is in the details'
• Norman Foster: 'As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.'
• Phillip Johnson: 'Architecture is the art of how waste space'
• JEAN NOUVEL: 'Each new situation requires a new architecture.'
• Frank Lloyd Wright: 'The Mother Art Is Architecture. Without An Architecture Of Our Own We Have No Soul Of Our Own Civilization'
• Daniel Libeskind: 'To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it.'
• To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it.- Daniel Libeskind
• Architecture is the thoughtful making of spaces that affect people.- Daniel Libeskind
• Eero Saarinen: 'Function influence but does not dictate form'
• Eliel Saarinen: 'Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context'
• Renzo Piano: 'A museum is a place where one should lose one's head'
• Frank Gehry: 'Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness'
• William Morris: 'Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful'
• I.M. Pei: 'Life is architecture and architecture is the mirror of life'
• Le Corbusier: 'A house is a machine for living in'
• Adolf Loos: 'Ornament is a crime'
• frank gehry


  deconstructive architecture

  
• louis sullivan


  Sullivan made famous a design style for skyscrapers called tripartite, where a building's facade has three distinct divisions. The base is the lowest one to three stories, then there is a shaft, consisting of several stories with arched windows, and then a cap of one to four stories on top.

  
• ludwig mies van der rohe


  use doors and glass in fixed frames to create glass walls that span from the floor to the ceiling.

  
• Charles-Édouard Jeanneret or le corbusier


  notre dame

  
• William Van Alen


  Art Deco, short for the French Arts décoratifs, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in Paris in the 1910s

  
• frank lloyd wright


  mostly known for the dozens of Prairie Style homes he designed between 1900 and 1920. He described them as, “the city man’s country home on the prairie.” 

  
• leoh ming pei


  most well-known is the pyramidic glass buildings such as the Louvre. These buildings have a glass pyramid (made from steel and glass) incorporated into their structure.

  
• Louis khan


  developed a distinct and original style that was characterized by: the use of simple geometric forms typical for modernist architecture. the brutalist monumentality of the buildings. the use of simple, traditional materials such as brick, concrete, and wood.

  
• jean nouvel


  a bold and innovative use of materials, a focus on light and space, and a willingness to push boundaries and experiment with new ideas.

  
• Philip Johnson


  neoclassicism to a casual postmodernism

  
• Tadao Ando


  create a haiku effect, emphasizing nothingness and empty space to represent the beauty of simplicity

  
• Eliel Saarinen


  Art Nouveau-inspired Finnish buildings and modernist urban planning

  
• Eero Saarinen


  Neo-Futuristic

  
• William Morris


   contemporary Neo-Gothic architecture, the House was nevertheless unique, with Morris describing it as "very mediaeval in spirit"

  
• Daniel Libeskind


  closely related to the architectural style of Deconstructivism, for many of his structures feature unconventional, angular, and fragmented designs

  
• Zaha Hadid 


  intensely futuristic designs characterised by fluid, curving facades, sharp angels and severe materials of concrete and steel.

  
• Norman Foster


  high-tech and modernist, employs the innovative use of materials like steel and glass.

  
• Adolf Loos


   emphasized moving away from ornamentation toward greater functionality and opposed the popular Art Nouveau movement.

  
• Renzo Piano


  The interior is open, light, modern, natural, old, and new at the same time.