The great majority of Baghdad is a slum - a lot of it's new, but it's still slum. It's usually this concrete-block, one-room design with a door and a window, arranged one-up, one-down, often with a shop with nothing in it on the first floor, and then a one-room apartment above it. There's street after street after street of that stuff.
Copy QuoteYou can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
Copy Quote View & ShareA designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Copy Quote View & ShareDesign is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Copy Quote View & ShareSpace and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
Copy Quote View & ShareGood design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.
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