Surprisingly, the Eisenhower Memorial design contains almost none of the known Gehry-box of tricks. His giant etched chain-link curtain, first applied in 1979 to hide an ungracious parking garage at Santa Monica Place, is resurrected for Eisenhower to screen the equally graceless facade of the Department of Education.
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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