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Resonant Thoughts: Witold Rybczynski’s “How Architecture Works: a Humanist’s Toolkit” (2011)
“You arrive at the sublime or poetic not by metaphor, but by making virtues out of necessity. That’s the secret of design.” Diamond Schmitt “The plan is the generator.” Le Corbusier “Values, not rules.” Witold Rybczynski, How Architecture Works Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Ernö Rubik’s “Cubed: The Puzzle of Us All” (2020)
“I had no deadline. I simply enjoyed the problem I had stumbled upon and knew that, for me, working on a problem is a prerequisite for fostering–or liberating–my imagination.” “At its core, design is the link to nature for artificial objects. Nature does not know strict borders; it only knows transition. An understanding of the Continue reading
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On Musical Analogies: Notes On Design
There’s a lot to think through in this video that features the designers Dieter Rams of Braun and Jonathan Ive of Apple. In the first part we hear Rams enumerate his ten principles of good design. Good design should be: innovative, essential or useful, aesthetic, understandable, honest, unobtrusive, consistent in every detail, long-lasting, environmentally friendly, and Continue reading
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