Doors Quote by Werner Herzog

My objective is to design a space that nobody else can come up with while using the material that anyone can use.

— Tadao Ando

The materials shape your idea.

— Erik Spiekermann

When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit…

— Yoshio Taniguchi

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…

— Frank Gehry

No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

I think you can spread yourself way too thin way too easily, so when I'm trying to create, I'm trying to create ideas for…

— Corey Reynolds

Nine out of nine architects start with a sketch, and then they say, 'What should we make it out of?' I start from the…

— Peter Marino

Design is not the act of amazing an audience with the novelty of forms or materials; it is the originality that repeatedly extracts astounding…

— Kenya Hara

I use geometric and mathematical ideas to organize material, but those are tools. The purpose of the work is not to expose that at…

— Lucinda Childs

If you can design one thing, you can design everything.

— Massimo Vignelli

You have to draw on a fair amount of experience in order to be able to put ideas together.

— John B. Goodenough

How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?

— Michael Arad