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A house is a machine for living in.

Le Corbusier

Toward an Architecture

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Topic

Houses Home Architecture

Author

Le Corbusier

Source

Toward an Architecture

Medium

Essay

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

French

Time

1923 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Corbusier, Le. Vers une Architecture. Editions G. Crès et Cie., 1923.

Current Citation

Corbusier, Le. Toward an Architecture. Getty Research Institute, 2007.

Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

Buckminster Fuller

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Topic

Man and nature Government

Author

Buckminster Fuller

Source

Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

Language

English

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Fuller, Richard Buckminster. Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth. Simon and Schuster, 1969, ch. 4.

The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of city architecture.

Philip C. Johnson

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Topic

Cars Urban planning Cities

Author

Philip C. Johnson

Language

English

Time

1955 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Johnson, Philip C. "The Town and the Automobile or the Pride of Elm Street." Writings. Oxford University Press, 1979.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Topic

Architecture

Author

Frank Lloyd Wright

Source

The Living City

Language

English

Time

1958 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Wright. Frank Lloyd. The Living City. Horizon Press, 1958.

Form ever follows function.

Louis Henri Sullivan

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Topic

Design

Author

Louis Henri Sullivan

Source

The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1896 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Sullivan, Louis Henri. "The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered." Lippincott's Magazine, Mar. 1896.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

Buckminster Fuller

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Topic

Man and nature

Author

Buckminster Fuller

Source

Minneapolis Tribune

Medium

Interview Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1978 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Fuller, Richard Buckminster. "Bucky Fuller Gives Us 8 Years." Interviewed by Larry Batson. Minneapolis Tribune, 30 Apr. 1978.

Cultural evolution is equivalent to the removal of ornament from articles in daily use.

Adolf Loos

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Topic

Cultural evolution Minimalism

Speaker

Adolf Loos

Medium

Lecture

Language

German

Time

1910 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Loos, Adolf. "Ornament und Verbrechen [Ornament and Crime]." 21 Jan. 1910, Academic Association for Literature and Music, Vienna, Austria. Lecture.

Current Citation

Loos, Adolf. Ornament and Crime. Penguin Classics, 2019.

Architecture aims at Eternity.

Christopher Wren

On Architecture

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Topic

Architecture

Author

Christopher Wren

Source

On Architecture

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1680 1680s 17th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Wren, Christopher. "On Architecture." Parentalia; or, Memoirs of the Family of the Wrens. London: Thomas Osborn, 1750, appendix, tract 1.

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Topic

Architecture

Author

Frank Lloyd Wright

Source

The New York Times Magazine

Medium

Magazine

Language

English

Time

1953 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Wright, Frank Lloyd. "What Every Budding Architect Should Know." The New York Times Magazine, 4 Oct. 1953.

A hundred times I have thought: New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: it is a beautiful catastrophe.

Le Corbusier

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Topic

New York City

Author

Le Corbusier

Source

When the Cathedrals Were White

Genre

Historical literature

Language

French

Time

1937 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Corbusier, Le. Quand Les Cathedrales Etaient Blanches [When the Cathedrals Were White]. Librairie Plon, 1937.

Current Citation

Corbusier, Le. When the Cathedrals Were White. McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1964.

Painting contains a divine force which not only makes absent men present, as friendship is said to do, but moreover makes the dead seem almost alive.

Leon Battista Alberti

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Topic

Power of art Painting Art

Author

Leon Battista Alberti

Language

Latin

Time

1435 1430s 15th century

Era

Middle Ages

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Alberti, Leon Battista. De Pictura [On Painting]. c. 1450, bk. 2.

Current Citation

Alberti, Leon Battista. On Painting, translated by John R. Spencer. Yale University Press, 1966, bk. 2.

The modern city is a place for banking and prostitution and very little else.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Topic

Cities

Speaker

Frank Lloyd Wright

Language

English

Time

1973 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Wright, Frank Lloyd. Quoted in Frank Lloyd Wright: His Life and His Architecture, written by Robert C. Twombly. Harper & Row, 1973, ch. 9.

Lack of ornament is a sign of spiritual strength.

Adolf Loos

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Topic

Simplicity

Speaker

Adolf Loos

Source

Ornament and Crime

Medium

Speech

Language

German

Time

1908 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Loos, Adolf. "Ornament und Verbrechen [Ornament and Crime]." 21 Jan. 1910, Academic Association for Literature and Music, Vienna, Austria. Lecture.

Current Citation

Loos, Adolf. Ornament and Crime. Penguin Classics, 2019.

North American civilization is one of the ugliest to have emerged in human history, and it has engulfed the world. Asphalt and exhaust fumes clog the villages... This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... The inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the globe.

Arthur Charles Erickson

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Topic

America Materialism Environmental destruction

Speaker

Arthur Charles Erickson

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1973 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Erickson, Arthur Charles. Speech recieving an honorary university degree, LL.D. (Honoris Causa). 1973, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.

Neither natural ability without instruction, nor instruction without natural ability, can make the perfect artist.

Vitruvius

De Architectura

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Topic

Artistic development Artists

Author

Vitruvius

Source

De Architectura

Language

Latin

Time

70 BC 70s BC 1st century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Vitruvius Pollio. De Architectura Libri Decem [Ten Books of Architecture]. Rome: Fra Giovanni Sulpitius, c. 1486, bk. 1, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Vitruvius Pollio. Ten Books on Architecture, edited by Ingrid D. Rowland and Thomas Noble Howe. Cambridge University Press, 2001, bk. 1, ch. 1.

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Topic

Architecture

Author

Frank Lloyd Wright

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1932 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Wright, Frank Lloyd. An Autobiography. Longmans, Green and Co., 1932.

The two great rules for design are these: 1st, that there should be no features about a building which are not necessary for convenience, construction or propriety; 2nd, that all ornament should consist of the essential construction of the building. The neglect of these two rules is the cause of all the bad architecture of the present time.

Augustus Welby Pugin

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Topic

Architecture

Author

Augustus Welby Pugin

Language

English

Time

1841 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Pugin, Augustus Welby. True Principles of Pointed or Christian Architecture. J. Weale, 1841.