reflections on design, arts & architecture

This page contains some thoughts about the world of design, art and architecture that we consider interesting and that we want to share with you: it will be updated frequently. Come back often for more food for thought!

"Order is the generator of beauty and harmony", (from the Shaker's vision of life)

"Trough simple geometrical forms I want to express intentions and emotions" (Tadao Ando)

"...it was Lao Tze, half a millenium before Christ, the first to state that the reality of a building does not stay in its foru walls and its roof, but in the internal space, in the space where you live...(Frank Lloyd Wright)

"Art does not consist in representing human things,but rather in representing them with humanity" (Ugo Foscolo)

"...cultural evolution is equivalent to the removal of ornaments from the objects" (Adolf Loos)

"Artistic beauty is not a beautiful thing, but a beautiful representation of a thing" (Immanuel Kant)