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Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherine's beauty and Renee's frailty, they directed me visually just by who they were. ↗

— Colleen Atwood

#catherine #designing #directed #frailty #helped

The designs were based on quite a lot of research of what a movie musical is, filtered through the eyes of today. If we'd gone strictly with the '20s, the movement would have been impaired. ↗

— Colleen Atwood

#been #designs #eyes #filtered #gone

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. ↗

— Richard Buckminster Fuller

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Good ideas come from everywhere. It's more important to recognize a good idea than to author it. ↗

— Jeanne Gang

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The self-commissioned architect is the obviously exclusive potential - for as at present used, or designed, the world's resources are serving only forty-four per cent of humanity. ↗

— Richard Buckminster Fuller

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Parks, plazas, gardens, and rooftops are culture-producing places, not merely place for retreat. Sidewalks and bridges become ends in themselves instead of just a means of getting from one place to another. ↗

— Sally A. Kitt Chappell

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Être architecte n'est pas seulement construire, c'est créer de larges espaces avec peu de place. ↗

— Yannick Heywang

#architecture #construction #création #créativité #créer

Sustainability is now a big baggy sack in which people throw all kinds of old ideas, hot air and dodgy activities in order to be able to greenwash their products and feel good. ↗

— Kevin McCloud

#design #ecology #home #urban-planning #architecture

In merging nature and culture the most successful cities combine such universal needs as maintaining or restoring contact with the cycles of nature, with specific, local characteristics. ↗

— Sally A. Kitt Chappell

#design #parks #urban #architecture

For example, they recently had a piece on a character--I think his name was Ambrosio D'Urbervilles--whose "design statement" was to stuff an entire apartment from floor to ceiling with dark purple cottonballs. He called it "Portrait of a Dead Camel Dancing on the Roof of a Steambath. ↗

— Mark Helprin

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