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“People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.”
“If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don't do it right, the whole thing is going to cave in. In a certain sense, you can carry that to gra...”
“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, time...”
“I live in a craftsman house, but I'm a big fan of modernist and mid-century furniture and architecture, too. But my dream is to do a truly original chair design, something that is all these differe...”
“I'm involved in everything from highly progressive lighting systems to airline interiors. In the field of transportation I can go from the micro to the macro: architecture, transportation, industri...”
“To go back to architecture, what's organic about architecture as a field, unlike product design, is this whole issue of holism and of monumentality is really our realm. Like, we have to design thin...”
“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 ...”
“Architecture students are generally given theoretical projects, often located at distant locations, and told to come up with a design.”
“I started collecting aerial photographs of Native American and South Pacific architecture; only the African ones were fractal. And if you think about it, all these different societies have differen...”
“Design, refine and repeat, and keep learning all the way along. It sounds bland and pedestrian, but in fact, it's the reverse.”
“I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.”
“If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.”
“But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?”
“Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.”
“The universe is so unique and perfect that it could not have originated by chance but was divined by flawless, creative design.”
“The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.”
“Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different.”
“Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods.”
“Ever since I was a little girl, I wanted Valentino to design my wedding dress. Valentino is the definition of timeless elegance. I don't think there's another couture house like it.”
“It's not all that important that you be able to originate brilliant ideas... The more important talent is to be able to recognize good ideas from other people.”
