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"In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route."
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"Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book."
"Rather than wait to see what the day or future holds, why not design and plan the future you want to experience?"
"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."
"All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks."
"Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture."
"Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity."
"I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead."
"All but universally, human architecture values front elevations over back entrances, public spaces over private. Danny Jessup says that this aspect of architecture is also a reflection of human nature, that most people care more about their appearance than they do about their souls."
"The White House was designed by Hoban a noted Irish-American architect and I have no doubt that he believed by incorporating several features of the Dublin style he would make it more homelike for any President of Irish descent. It was a long wait but I appreciate his efforts."
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"To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need."
"The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life."
"Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se."
"It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do."
"Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make."
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