The World Motivation
Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
“Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.”
— Le Corbusier · Design
Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.
A house is a machine for living in.
To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.
I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.
Design is a series of creative choices - it's a collaborative effort, an evolutionary process. You choose your fabrics depending upon what you want to say, then you work with mills to get those fabrics. Through the process, you realize what you want it to be.
There is a group of individuals who are radical jihadists. We need to call them by name. They believe it is OK to kill people in the name of their religion. It is not all of Islam. It is not all Muslims. But there is a subgroup who believe it is OK. In fact, it is their plan and design to kill people.
Data and data sets are not objective; they are creations of human design. We give numbers their voice, draw inferences from them, and define their meaning through our interpretations.
If I look at my own growth, I started in product design. And we grew and created new products, and we were also able to change the idea of design a few times.