Famous Quotes

"In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route."

Charles Eames on Architecture

More quotes about Architecture

• "We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us."

  Winston Churchill on Architecture

• "Whatever good things we build end up building us."

  Jim Rohn on Architecture

• "I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build."

  Ayn Rand on Architecture

• "A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom."

  Ayn Rand on Architecture

• "Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age."

  Frank Lloyd Wright on Architecture

More quotes by Charles Eames

• "Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world."

• "Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design."

• "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."

• "Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose."

• "The details are not the details. They make the design."