Joshua Prince-Ramus Quotes

Like many people out there, I'm inspired by the level of attention to detail, design and execution of Apple products.

The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.

Design means being good, not just looking good.

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

I knew style and content went hand in hand.

For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.

Puma was all about function and not at all about design. The founder of the company always believed functionality and performance were the only ingredients that could make Puma successful and design never mattered.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created.

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

The difference between good design and great design is intelligence.

Deep in the culture of Apple is this sense and understanding of design, developing, and making. Form and the material and process - they are beautifully intertwined - completely connected.

I think a beautiful product that doesn't work very well is ugly.

Throughout the ages it has always been possible to point to good and bad architecture.

As if a device can function if it has no style. As if a device can be called stylish that does not function superbly... yes, beauty matters. Boy, does it matter. It is not surface, it is not an extra, it is the thing itself.

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

Beauty isn't what I'm primarily interested in [in architecture]. I think appropriateness is more important.

Now architecture consists of order, which in Greek is called taxis ... Order is the balanced adjustment of the details of the work separately, and, as to the whole, the arrangement of the proportion with a view to a symmetrical result.

The concept of architecture as analogous to landscape is something that has interested me for a long time.

Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. Creative work is expressed in our time as a union of technology and humanity.

When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest of sights to him who has the eye to contemplate the vision.