Design Coherence Quotes

To go back to architecture, what's organic about architecture as a field, unlike product design, is this whole issue of holism and of monumentality is really our realm. Like, we have to design things which are coherent as a single object, but also break down into small rooms and have an identity of both the big scale and the small scale.

Macintosh felt like a system. As I learned more, I felt like I was able to guess how new things would work. I felt like the bugs in my programs were more my bugs and not things I misunderstood.

When I was in architecture school at Princeton, the worst thing you could say about someone was that they were eclectic.

But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral, for instance, that we like.

My homes are similar in style because the same design principles run through all areas of my work.

In designing a house and gardens, it is happy when there is an opportunity of maintaining a subordination of parts; the house so luckily place as to exhibit a view of the whole design. I have sometimes thought that there was room for it to resemble a epic or dramatic poem.

Once we establish an architectural style in each park, we stick with it religiously and comprehensively so that it comes out as a gestalt.

A house must be bedded in the landscape. They both have to work together. In and out, every view from a window has to be sensational. Every view into the house must be the same to ensure continuity.

The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street and a city are all the same process.

In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building.