In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
Charles Eames
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More quotes by Charles Eames
- In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
- Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.
- Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.
- To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.
- Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.