Art Quote by Daniel Lyons

“Seeking to create a high-productivity space for commercial innovation, Probst conceived the “Action Office,” whose surfaces, both horizontal and vertical, allowed for clear thought,…

— Steve Prentice

I aim to create furniture that appears in a room as buildings on a skyline and reminds the viewer of the interaction between objects…

— Gae Aulenti

“The professors at MIT—some of the most innovative technologists in the world—wanted nothing to do with an open-office-style workspace. They instead demanded the ability…

— Cal Newport

“Modern Movement architects and designers reinterpreted the rooms of buildings in new ways, using the language of "spatial relationships" and "volumes" in influence display…

— Philip Hughes

When you go to a normal architecture firm they aren't going to be innovative in terms of their systems. They're not going to be…

— Miguel McKelvey

My office is tiny. I think most people would be shocked if they came to my home and saw it. It is, in fact,…

— Erik Larson

Spare functional furniture, in my opinion, is the genius of 20th-century design.

— Luca Guadagnino

I remember going into Steve's [Jobs] house, and he had almost no furniture in it. He just had a picture of Einstein, whom he…

— John Sculley

...when fits of creativity run strong, more than one programmer or writer has been known to abandon the desktop for the more spacious floor.

— Fred Brooks

My suspicion is that a lot of these office buildings will start to evolve from being optimized for individual offices or cube space to…

— Andy Jassy

The tall modern office building is the machine pure and simple...the engine, the motor and the battleship the works of the century.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The house is a factory.

— Dave Eggers