Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.
Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.
A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.
Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.
Agriculture as we know it needs to disappear. We can design better and healthier proteins than we get from nature.
The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.
A shoe is not only a design, but it's a part of your body language, the way you walk. The way you're going to move is quite dictated by your shoes.
