Quotes About Design

Architecture is invention.

There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.

My work is not about 'form follows function ' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'

It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

Form follows beauty.

Não é o ângulo reto que me atrai. Nem a linha reta, dura, inflexível, criada pelo homem. O que me atrai é a curva livre e sensual.

There have been prophets and students who handle the Bible like a child's box of bricks; they explain to us the design and structure and purpose; but as time goes on things do not work out in their way at all. They have mistaken the scaffolding for the structure, while all the time God is working out His purpose with a great and undeterred patience.

To grasp the true meaning of socialism, imagine a world where everything is designed by the post office, even the sleaze.

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

Good taste is the enemy of creativity

or what has been termed the "decompression zone," as among our most meaningful and useful work. It

Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new... but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design?

I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.

My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.

In both designing and evaluating processes, these teams would pay particular attention to passing the "process baton." Processes should be designed to facilitate the exchange of the baton, the movement of responsibility from one person to another.

No-pocket jeans are only slightly less irritating than thong underwear.

Betrayal, addiction and trauma weave a design of continually recycled wounds that create an overarching pattern of compulsive relationships.

There is something deeply satisfying in shaping something with your hands. Proper artificing is like a song made solid. It is an act of creation.

She curled snugly along the inside of my body, so easy and natural, as if she had been designed to fit there.

an architect should not take a position of throw more hardware at it... that will fix all the problems.

The more strikingly visual your presentation is, the more people will remember it.

Our lives are no more than the sum of manifold contingencies, and no matter how diverse they might be in their details, they all share an essential randomness in their design: this then that, and because of that, this.