Able Quote by Diane Wood

There is no more reason to think that they expected the world to remain static than there is to think that any of us…

— Diane Wood

“There were 1,100 requirements. The stack was a few inches thick,” says Johnson. Just thinking about those documents makes me feel for the people…

— Jeff Sutherland

I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn't endure.

— Robin Day

We lay foundations that will need further development.

— Oscar Romero

In tech, you create the foundation; even sometimes if it doesn't work, you take that same developmental idea, and you use it to apply…

— Margo Georgiadis

“Foundational design principles regarding aesthetics, symbolism and meaning of place were for the old-timer carpenter, simply routine. Unfortunately, these principles began to lose their…

— Shannon Taylor Scarlett

Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of old? Where else can we find such unity of material, construction…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Good design should reflect a sense of human history-some aspect of where we've come from.

— Hartmut Esslinger

. . . in one sense a foundation is a security blanket: If you meticulously follow the rules laid down, no paradoxes or contradictions…

— Saunders Mac Lane

Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking.

— Moshe Safdie

Let there be a wide breadth of possible ways to create.

— Akiva Goldsman

The content could be done anyplace, but the real invention is the architecture. The architecture is the only work that really defines a new…

— Miuccia Prada