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Frank Gehry(1929) speaks to the power of ignoranceand insecurityin the
creative process, and echoing Orson Welles:
For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity,
almost like the first project I ever did, and I get the sweats, I go in and start
working, Im not sure where Im going if I knew where I was going, I wouldntdo it.
Hannes Meyer(18891954) offers a list of the only requirements to be
considered when building a house:
sex life
sleeping habits
petsgardening
personal hygiene
protection against weather
hygiene in the home
car maintenance
cookingheating
insolation
Service
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Frank Lloyd Wright(18671959) reminds us of the joy of the analog:
Is anything more pleasurable to the mind than unsullied paper? The studious
comparisons and selections of stock in textures and colors of cards and paper?
Tom Kundig(1954) stresses the importance of cross-pollinating perspectives:
I learn more from creative people in other disciplines than I do even from other
architects because I think they have a way of looking at the world that is really
important.
Thom Mayne(1944 ) explores the relationship between simplicity and complexity:
Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years
writing complex novels one might be able, someday, to construct a respectablehaiku.
Glenn Murcutt(1936) voices something George Lois has since echoed:
We do not create the work. I believe we, in fact, are discoverers.
Le Corbusier(18871965) stands for the honesty of drawing:
I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster and leaves less room for lies.
Jan Kaplicky(19372009) on creativity as subtraction:Its not a sign of creativity to have sixty-five ideas for one problem. Its just a waste
of energy.
Some of them, of course, are but a caricature of the infamous architect arrogance.
From Louis Kahn(19011974):
The sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building.
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Here is one of the few effective keys to the design problem the ability of the
designer to recognize as many of the constraints as possible his willingness and
enthusiasm for working within these constraints. Constraints of price, of size, of
strength, of balance, of surface, of time and so forth. Charles Eames (Photo by
Charles Eames courtesy eamesdesigns.com)