- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't care what people call me, labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have no requirements for a style of architecture.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I have a style, I am not aware of it.
- Architecture
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- Nov 07, 2020
In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good.
- Career
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design, and I've devoted much of my career to this.
- Centered
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- Nov 07, 2020
The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe well-designed places and objects can actually improve healing, while poor design can inhibit it.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
For my first apartment, when I was first married, I went to the lumberyard and bought stuff and made couches. My then-wife made cushions. I was really very interested in furniture. I was in school for architecture, but I had to live, and making furniture was different from designing buildings, which I couldn't do for myself.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started my own practice, I was criticized, not because I was doing product design but because, like Le Corbusier, I was insisting on paintings in all of my buildings. I would paint wall murals in the houses that I designed, just as he did in the '20s and '30s.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
We always correct people who say, 'You're trying to make this look better.' Well yes, we want it to look better, but that's easy. The look and the function are one and the same. They are not separate. It looks good because it functions beautifully. That message is very hard.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm working on a school of architecture in China. It's rare that an architect gets to design a school of architecture, and here I get to do it. I'm so pleased that they asked me.
- Building
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- Nov 07, 2020
I taught at Princeton for 39 years, and the school of architecture on the campus is the worst building on the campus.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can never draw enough or read enough - reading about architecture, in other words.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the first day I got my wheelchair, I was also given all my clothes for the next day, a little pile on the chair. I was so proud of myself for getting it all on - the socks and everything. Dressing is a struggle, and it can take up to an hour and a half.
- Nov 07, 2020
The avant garde is so narcissistic.
- Door
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I design a building, I'm making sure you and I can get to the front door, there's enough of a threshold for entry, and that the rooms are in a logical sequence.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good design to me is both appearance and functionality together. It's the experience that makes it good design.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020