A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.
Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.
I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation.
The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.
Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.
Trends in fashion, design and pop culture are taking on more global influence, and of course, one thing that's always in style is color.
Tesla is changing the paradigm. We're going to turn the world on its ear and create high demand through design.
As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.
Successful design is not the achievement of perfection but the minimization and accommodation of imperfection.
Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
