Architecture Quote by Charles Eames Download Open image “In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.” — Charles Eames ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architecture Design Direct Engineering Idea More
Design implies a sense of mapping something out and then you follow the plan. — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But… — Arne Jacobsen Copy Share Image
The best kind of design isn't necessarily an object, a space, or a structure: it's a process- dynamic and adaptable. — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
To design is to plan and to organize, to order, to relate and to control. In short it embraces all means of opposing disorder… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
Design... is the integration of technological, social, and economical requirements, biological necessities, and the psychological effects of materials, shape, color, volume and space. — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Copy Share Image
Architecture is about ideas in the first place. You don't get to design until you have an idea. — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
I make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention. — Ettore Sottsass Copy Share Image
Architecture is a hypothesis about the future that holds that subsequent change will be confined to that part of the design space encompassed by… — Brian Foote Copy Share Image
Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty. — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses… — Charles Eames Copy Share Image
It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad. — Charles Eames Copy Share Image
“Most people aren’t trained to want to face the process of re-understanding a subject they already know. One must obtain not just literacy, but… — Charles Eames Copy Share Image
Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world. — Charles Eames Copy Share Image
“Eventually everything connects — people, ideas, objects...the quality of the connections is the key to quality per se...I don't believe in this 'gifted few'… — Charles Eames Copy Share Image
“Choose Your Corner, Pick Away At It Carefully, Intensely, & To The Best Of Your Ability, & That Way, You Might change The World.” — Charles Eames Copy Share Image
Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se. — Charles Eames Copy Share Image
The bones of my architecture are very much related to the structure, to the physical fact of how a building can stand up; it's… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to,… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image
The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place. — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
A wiki works best where you're trying to answer a question that you can't easily pose, where there's not a natural structure that's known… — Ward Cunningham Copy Share Image
Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived. — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image