“No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.”
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“For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.”
“I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.”
“The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.”
“I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.”
“In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.”
“I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end, I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture.”
“I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business.”
“French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture like Roman design, it looks to the community.”
“Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.”
“All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.”
“People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.”
“Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.”
“There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy.”
“Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.”
“At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.”
“Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.”
“Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.”
“Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.”
“Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.”
“Design is not making beauty; beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.”
“Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold.”
“Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.”
“Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.”