Fumihiko Maki famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I understand that, today, some developers are asking architects to design eye-catching, iconic buildings. Fortunately, I've not had that kind of client so far.
-- Fumihiko Maki

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As photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs. Move on objects with your eye straight on, to the left, around on the right. Watch them grow large as they approach, group and regroup as you shift your position. Relationships gradually emerge and sometimes assert themselves with finality. And that's your picture.
Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.
Tell the negative committee that meets inside your head to sit down and shut up.
In pure architecture the smallest detail should have a meaning or serve a purpose.
The process begins with the individual womanâ€™s acceptance that American women, without exception, are socialized to be racist, classist and sexist, in varying degrees, and that labeling ourselves feminists does not change the fact that we must consciously work to rid ourselves of the legacy of negative socialization.
Delete, delete, delete and at the end find the â€˜core aspect of the designâ€™
Because it is a national landmark, there is only one way to judge the Kennedy Center - against the established standard of progressive and innovative excellence in architectural design that this country is known and admired for internationally. Unfortunately, the Kennedy Center not only does not achieve this standard of innovative excellence; it also did not seek it. The architect opted for something ambiguously called 'timelessness' and produced meaninglessness. It is to the Washington manner born. Too bad, since there is so much of it.
Flow systems have two basic features (properties). There is the current that is flowing (for example, fluid, heat, mass, or information) and the design through which it flows.
No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the people for whom the object is intended.
Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay.

Fumihiko Maki famous quotes

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