Design Intent Quotes

Early in my career, I tried to bring an artistic feeling to architecture. That's really the intent and impression of what I think about: context, space, shapes, and landscape.

Design is nothing if not decision making.

You cannot defend your design without knowing what you're designing for.

Design is just language and the real issue is what you use that language to do.

When we think of design, we usually imagine things that are chosen because they are designed. Vases or comic books or architecture... It turns out, though, that most of what we make or design is actually aimed at a public that is there for something else. The design is important, but the design is not the point. Call it "public design"... Public design is for individuals who have to fill out our tax form, interact with our website or check into our hotel room despite the way it's designed, not because of it.

Dont confuse legibility with communication. Just because something is legible doesnt mean it communicates and, more importantly, doesnt mean it communicates the right thing.

A structure is a bit like a story. People will go along with you - they see where you're going.

I'm going to design again, but I come back when it's the right project, so I keep my passion for it intact.

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

Don't look at the superficial success, at the short-term success. Look at the deep spiritual questions that architecture has to answer. Who do you build for? Where? What should you build?

Technology is not neutral.

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.

Before you begin designing or buying anything, you need to get real and ask yourself: What do you really want to use this room for? What do you want to do in this room but can't now?

I don't think architecture should be considered as an art form in the first instance. Whenever I say that, it makes people really angry. But this is a very political profession in the Grecian sense. I believe there have to be reasons for every building, and that the ideas should not be self-referential.

I always design the hat with the wearer in mind; otherwise, it's an inanimate object.

The point is that I don't design stuff for myself. I'm a toolmaker. I design things that other people want to use.

For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn.

Usually, as designers, you try to create meaning.

Some do design in order to try to solve others' problems, while others make art in order to give others his problems.

It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.