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    This document profiles 20 influential architects and their contributions to architecture. It describes their philosophies, famous works, and quotes that capture their approach. Some of the architects featured include Le Corbusier, who developed the 5 points of architecture and said "the house is a machine for living in"; Frank Lloyd Wright, known for organic architecture and works like Fallingwater; and Frank Gehry, whose sculptural buildings include the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.

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    This document profiles 20 influential architects and their contributions to architecture. It describes their philosophies, famous works, and quotes that capture their approach. Some of the architects featured include Le Corbusier, who developed the 5 points of architecture and said "the house is a machine for living in"; Frank Lloyd Wright, known for organic architecture and works like Fallingwater; and Frank Gehry, whose sculptural buildings include the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.

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    This document profiles 20 influential architects and their contributions to architecture. It describes their philosophies, famous works, and quotes that capture their approach. Some of the architects featured include Le Corbusier, who developed the 5 points of architecture and said "the house is a machine for living in"; Frank Lloyd Wright, known for organic architecture and works like Fallingwater; and Frank Gehry, whose sculptural buildings include the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.

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    MASTER ARCHITECTS

    Le Corbusier
     Leader of the “International Style”
     “The house is a machine for living in”
     “By law, all buildings should be white”
     5 points of architecture
     Villa Savoye, France
     Notre-Dame-du-Haut, France
    Sir Norman Foster
     High tech modernist buildings
     Uses off site manufactured parts and repetition of modular components
     Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank
     30 St Mary, London
    Buckminster Fuller
     “Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it”
     You must choose between making money and making sense. The two are mutually
    exclusive”
     Geodesic Dome
    Antonio Gaudi
     “Straight lines belong to man, curve lines belong to God”
     Casa Calvet, Casa Mila
     Sagrada Familia, Spain
    Louis Sullivan
     Father of Modern Architecture
     “Forms follows function”
     Wainwright Building, USA
    Eric Mendelsohn
     Einstein Tower
    Michael Graves
     “Design as if you were a child”
     Engineering Research Center, University of Cincinnati
    Adolf Loos
     “Ornament equals crime”
    Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
     “Less is more”
     Farnsworth house
    Robert Venturi
     “Less is Bore”
    I.M Pei
     “Symbolism and Blasphemies”
     "I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a
    foundation of necessity."
     Pyramid, Louvre Museum, Paris
     Bank of China
     John Hancock Tower, Boston

    Eero Saarinen
     Trans World Airlines Terminal
     Dulles Airport
     St. Louis Gateway Arch
    Frank Gehry
     “I approach each building as a sculptural object, a spatial container, a space with light
    and air, a response to context and appropriateness of feeling and spirit. To this
    container, this sculpture, the user brings his baggage, his program, and interacts with it
    to accommodate his needs. If he can't do that, I've failed."
     Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao Spain
     Walt Disney Concert Hall
    Frank Lloyd Wright
     Advocator of Organic Architecture
     “A house must not be on a hill, but of a hill”
     "An idea is salvation by imagination."
     Robbie House, Johnson wax building, Falling water
    Richard Rogers
     “Forms is what, Design is how”
     88 Wood Street, London
    Cass Gilbert
     Pioneer of skyscraper
     "Beware of over-confidence; especially in matters of structure."
     "It is only the young and callow and ignorant that admire rashness. Think before you
    speak. Know your subject."
     Woolworth Building (Gothic character)
    Walter Gropius
     Founder of the Bauhaus
     Bauhaus, Germany
     Fagus Works
    William Le Baron Jenney
     Father of American Skyscraper
     Home Insurance Building (1st skyscraper)
    Philip Johnson
     Coined the term International style
     “Create beautiful things. That’s all”
     “Architecture is surely not the design of space, certainly not the massing or organizing of
    volumes. These are auxiliary to the main point, which is the organization of procession.
    Architecture exists only in time”
     “The only test for architecture is to build a building, go inside and let it wrap itself around
    you”
     AT&T Headquarters
     The Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut, USA
     The Seagram building
    Louis Khan
     "Architecture is the reaching out for the truth"
     "A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable
    means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable."
     Yale Center for British Art
    Richard Meier
     "... I think white is the most wonderful color of all, because within it one can find every
    color of the rainbow."
     The Getty Center
    Frederick Law Olmsted
     Father of American Landscape Design
     Central Park
    Cesar Pelli
     "... a building must be both background and foreground. As foreground, it must have
    some exceptional qualities. But it must also try very hard to knit into the fabric..."
     Petronas Tower, KL Malaysia

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