Design Methodology Quotes

I fervently believe in research as a necessity for good design, and I teach it that way.

Design is a response to a specific problem. You are given a problem to solve, and then you let the problem itself tell you what your solution is.

We have lots to learn in India when it comes to design, and that includes me! I'm constantly learning; that never stops.

The best kind of design isn't necessarily an object, a space, or a structure: it's a process- dynamic and adaptable.

If there is a well thought-out design standard, it should be followed. In practice, great design comes from great designers. That is empirically the case. If a great designer did a first-rate standard, that model should be followed. Great design is not democratic; it comes from great designers. If the standard is lousy, then develop another standard.

Steve [Jobs'] brilliance is his ability to see something and then understand it and then figure out how to put it into the context of his design methodology - everything is design.

[There are] unseen objects that await us, if we as architects begin to think about designing not the object, but a process to generate objects.

When any great design thou dost intend, Think on the means, the manner, and the end.

There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.

I wonder if I would have been less organic of a designer without my background. Maybe I would be more academic about designing, more methodical. I want things to be a certain way, and I'm very precise, but school itself wasn't that relevant for me.

Forms in nature are a byproduct of a reciprocal action between a given material and the conditions of the environment. But in architecture, the process is the direct opposite: First you decide on the form, and then you think how to build it in reality.