Aesthetic Functionality Quotes

I think of architecture as a piece of clothing to wrap around human beings

Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building.

In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions: Commodity, Firmness and Delight.

Architecture falls between art and airports. It's pragmatic-it helps you get from point A to point B. But it also works as art. It makes you think twice. It inspires you. It brings you back to yourself.

Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.

What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful . . . Great designers also pursue a mission. Great designers design with mankind in mind . . . The crossroads of science and art, innovation and inspiration are what I love about design.

I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.

C'est véritablement utile puisque c'est joli. It is truly useful since it is beautiful.

The purpose of architecture is to create an atmosphere in which man can live, work, and enjoy.

Products were once designed for the functions they performed. But when all companies can make products that perform their functions equally well, the distinctive advantage goes to those who provide pleasure and enjoyment while maintaining the power. If functions are equated with cognition, pleasure is equated with emotion; today we want products that appeal to both cognition and emotion.

Design isn't just about making things beautiful; it's also about making things work beautifully.

Great design is so many things all at the same time. It is emotional, functional, and responsive. It creates an unwritten dialogue, a connection, between itself and those who experience it. It is open to interpretation yet created for a specific purpose. It creates meaning and value.

Architecture is not about building the impossible, which we can do if we have enough money and enough tools and enough computers. It is about building what is appropriate and about attaining beauty through such an approach. I describe this premise as 'inherent buildability', and I believe it is central to what I do.

What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful.

Open the hood of a car and it will tell you something about the people who designed it, is just one of many phrases I’m tortured by.

Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.

We have always thought about design as being so much more than just the way something looks. It's the whole thing: the way something works on so many different levels. Ultimately, of course, design defines so much of our experience.

In the East there is a gap between the top of the wall and the underside of the roof; the wall does not act as a support. Instead, it acts as a screen, and the Chinese were able to use it as they wished.

Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty.

In the East there is a gap between the top of a wall and underside of a roof; it acts as a screen, and the Chinese were able to use it as they wished.

It's not so much about form versus functionality. Rather, it's about doing both and doing them a lot and doing them well-and that's how we should be talking about architecture.

If you focus on design, you can call yourself a designer. If you focus on the implementation of your design, you can call yourself an architect.

I view my hair and clothes as functional art.