Quotes About Design

In a modern loft, you can't just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect.

I believe that architecture, as anything else in life, is evolutionary. Ideas evolve; they don't come from outer space and crash into the drawing board.

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

People automatically associate the caliber of the space based on the appliances.

Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.

Aside from keeping the rain out and producing some usable space, architecture is nothing but a special-effects machine that delights and disturbs the senses.

Modern buildings of our time are so huge that one must group them. Often the space between these buildings is as important as the buildings themselves.

As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost.

Today's kitchen is all about a well-planned space that makes cooking a completely interactive experience among family and friends.

It's important to have a big-enough house in order to have space.

I have always loved aeroplanes and spacecraft and the design element.

A lot of people don't get it, but I design from the inside out so that the finished product looks inevitable somehow. I think it's important to create spaces that people like to be in, that are humanistic.

A city, far from being a cluster of buildings, is actually a sequence of spaces enclosed and defined by buildings.

Why should we build very large spaces when they are not necessary? We can design halls spanning several kilometres and covering a whole city, but we have to ask, what does it really make? What does society really need?

Design is about creating spaces for people to enjoy and of course, creating moments where you elevate the spirit, but 'design for good' is figuring out a program that not only creates better spaces, but creates jobs, creates new industry and really kind of raises the conversation about how we rebuild.

It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place. Many of these spaces were designed for sprawling installations, large paintings, and the Relational Aesthetics work of the past fifteen years.

Processionalism is primary - how you get from one place to another, the relationships and effects of spaces as you move about in them. That's worked out awfully well in the State Theater. I'm a 'straight-in' man myself; I'm too nervous, I like to know where I am. I also like to know where I'm going.

I don't enjoy living in a white box flooded with light. I like shadows, small spaces, old furniture.

We're producing spaces that accommodate human activity. And what I'm interested in is not the styling of that, but the relationship of that as it enhances that activity. And that directly connects to ideas of city-making.

Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity.

Our job is to get people in, create the spaces, and then get out of the way.

Be intentional about the spaces you create but not at the cost of compromising other elements.

In a way, the whole notion of a blueprint of a building is not that different from a script for a movie. A sequence of spaces, which is what you do as an architect, is really the same as a sequence of scenes.

At the core of the Magnolia brand is the desire to make homes beautiful but with a focus on family and practicality. We want to create spaces that families want to gather in.