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    Ezra Pound
    “A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.”
    ― Ezra Pound
    tags: architecture
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    “When they first built the University of California at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They did not put any sidewalks, they just planted grass. The next year, they came back and put the sidewalks where the trails were in the grass. Perl is just that kind of language. It is not designed from first principles. Perl is those sidewalks in the grass.”
    ― Larry Wall
    tags: architecture, programming, ux, wayfinding
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    “Forests were the first temples of God and in forests men grasped their first idea of architecture.”
    ― James C. Snyder, Introduction to Architecture
    tags: architecture, art, midieval
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    Frank Lloyd Wright
    “A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.”
    ― Frank Lloyd Wright
    tags: architecture, humor
    187 likes

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    Karl Lagerfeld
    “We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.”
    ― Karl Lagerfeld
    tags: architecture, art, clothes, clothing, designer, fashion, hunger, karl-lagerfeld, need, needs, people, quote, quotes, stimulate, thirst, wisdom, woman, women
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    Frank Lloyd Wright
    “As we live and as we are, Simplicity - with a capital "S" - is difficult to comprehend nowadays. We are no longer truly simple. We no longer live in simple terms or places. Life is a more complex struggle now. It is now valiant to be simple: a courageous thing to even want to be simple. It is a spiritual thing to comprehend what simplicity means.”
    ― Frank Lloyd Wright, The Natural House
    tags: architecture, life
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  • #8
    “A great building must begin with the immeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed, and in the end must be unmeasured.”
    ― Louis Kahn
    tags: architecture
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  • #9
    “Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.”
    ― Arthur Erickson
    tags: architecture, art, science
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  • #10
    “The architect, like other workers in our endeavor, is facing the inevitability of a change of profession: he [sic] will no longer be a builder of forms alone, but a builder of complete ambiances.”
    ― Tom McDonough, The Situationists and the City: A Reader
    tags: 108, architecture, city, situationist
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  • #11
    Rem Koolhaas
    “The cosmetic is cosmic.”
    ― Rem Koolhaas, Content
    tags: architecture, junkspace
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    Maggie Macnab
    “Design is a fundamental human activity, relevant and useful to everyone. Anything humans create—be it product, communication or system—is a result of the process of making inspiration real. I believe in doing what works as circumstances change: quirky or unusual solutions are often good ones. Nature bends and so should we as appropriate. Nature is always right outside our door as a reference and touch point. We should use it far more than we do.”
    ― Maggie Macnab, Design by Nature: Using Universal Forms and Principles in Design
    tags: architecture, art, creativity, design, logos, nature, street-art
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    “Architecture is what nature cannot make.
    Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up.”
    ― Louis Kahn
    tags: architecture
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  • #15
    “Parks, plazas, gardens, and rooftops are culture-producing places, not merely place for retreat. Sidewalks and bridges become ends in themselves instead of just a means of getting from one place to another.”
    ― Sally A. Kitt Chappell
    tags: architecture, design
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  • #16
    “Like medicine (architecture) must move from the curative to the preventive.”
    ― Cedric Price, Cedric Price - The Square Book (Architectural Monographs
    tags: architecture
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  • #17
    “All buildings have a psychological as well as a purely visual effect on the landscape.”
    ― Elisabeth Beazley, Designed for recreation: A practical handbook for all concerned with providing leisure facilities in the countryside;
    tags: architecture, landscape, psyche
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    “Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.”
    ― Louis khan
    tags: architecture, space
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    “the most important part of design is finding all the issues to be resolved. The rest are details”
    ― Soumeet Lanka
    tags: architecture, design, details, process-of-design
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    Jeanne Gang
    “Good ideas come from everywhere. It's more important to recognize a good idea than to author it.”
    ― Jeanne Gang
    tags: architecture, design, inspiration
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    Jim Henson
    “Simple is good.”
    ― Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green and Other Things to Consider
    tags: design
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    Steve Jobs
    “You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.”
    ― Steve Jobs
    tags: design, inspirational, life-lessons
    698 likes

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    John Maeda
    “Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.”
    ― John Maeda, The Laws of Simplicity
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    Paul Rand
    “Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.”
    ― Paul Rand
    tags: design
    145 likes

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    Paul Rand
    “Everything is design. Everything!”
    ― Paul Rand
    tags: design
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  • #26
    Steve Jobs
    “Real artists ship.”
    ― Steve Jobs
    tags: design, r-i-p, steve
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  • #27
    “The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.”
    ― Massimo Vignelli
    tags: design, inspirational
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    “A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.”
    ― Louis Nizer
    tags: art, design, work
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  • #29
    “If you can design one thing, you can design everything.”
    ― Massimo Vignelli
    tags: design
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    Edward R. Tufte
    “Design cannot rescue failed content.”
    ― Edward R. Tufte
    tags: design
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    Charles Eames
    “Eventually everything connects — people, ideas, objects...the quality of the connections is the key to quality per se...I don't believe in this 'gifted few' concept, just in people doing things they are really interested in doing. They have a way of getting good at whatever it is.”
    ― Charles Eames
    tags: design, inspirational, truth
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    Walter Isaacson
    “So that’s our approach. Very simple, and we’re really shooting for Museum of Modern Art quality. The way we’re running the company, the product design, the advertising, it all comes down to this: Let’s make it simple. Really simple.” Apple’s design mantra would remain the one featured on its first brochure: “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
    ― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
    tags: clare-boothe-luce, design, kiss, simple
    54 likes



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