Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it's this veneer - that the designers are handed this box and told, 'Make it look good!' That's not what we think design is. It's not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things a meaningful shape.
A building has integrity, just as a man and just as seldom! It must be true to its own idea, have its own form, and serve its own purpose!
Products have to be designed in a way that they are comprehensible.
There are two methods in software design. One is to make the program so simple, there are obviously no errors. The other is to make it so complicated, there are no obvious errors.
True architecture exists only where man stands in the center.
I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure. These abstractions play a role in many other disciplines, and those disciplines are now defining their 'architectures' as well.
I'm fascinated with design. I realized early that I had no talent in that direction, but I love talking with architects and designers about what they do. I appreciate applied creativity as a source of pleasure and meaning.
Everything starts with design.
Proper accounting is like engineering. You need a margin of safety. Thank God we don't design bridges and airplanes the way we do accounting.
I fervently believe in research as a necessity for good design, and I teach it that way.
Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created.
Architecture is the beginning of something because it's - if you're not involved in first principles, if you're not involved in the absolute, the beginning of that generative process, it's cake decoration.
You cannot understand good design if you do not understand people; design is made for people.
I was always a design junkie.
Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.
In the design process, there's a need to be culturally comprehensive.
If a chair or a building is not functional, if it appears to be only art, it is ridiculous.
A couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for color, a musician for harmony, and a philosopher for temperance.
Accessible design is good design.
Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.
Good design makes a product understandable.
Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing too early what a program should do.
