Functional Purpose Quotes

But that which is useful is the better.

A fishnet is made up of a lot more holes than strings, but you can't therefore argue that the net doesn't exist. Just ask the fish.

A bridge is born of necessity, but it must establish its own identity. It should harmonize with its surroundings, and the design must transcend the purely local and transform the setting.

A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.

We've been fighting from the beginning for organic architecture. That is, architecture where the whole is to the part as the part is to the whole, and where the nature of materials, the nature of the purpose, the nature of the entire performance becomes a necessity-architecture of democracy.

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

I have never designed a language for its own sake.

Great design is so many things all at the same time. It is emotional, functional, and responsive. It creates an unwritten dialogue, a connection, between itself and those who experience it. It is open to interpretation yet created for a specific purpose. It creates meaning and value.

Music has got to be useful for survival, or we would have gotten rid of it years ago.

Some are created for beauty, and some for use; and there are some which one can do without altogether.

I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.

I'm not mainly interested in what buildings mean as symbols or vehicles for ideas.

I think of my body as a tool to do the stuff I need to do, but not the be all end all of my existence.

If it’s not edible, it’s not food. If it’s not wearable, it’s not fashion.

The system is the work of art; the visual work of art is the proof of the System. The visual aspect can't be understood without understanding the system. It isn't what it looks like but what it is that is of basic importance.