The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life.
Charles EamesRead
In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote emphasizes the evolution of design in architecture towards a more enjoyable experience.
Charles Eames suggests that in the field of architecture, the initial concepts or ideas can sometimes become convoluted or 'degenerate.' However, through effective design, one can create a more straightforward and pleasurable experience for people interacting with architectural spaces, prioritizing functionality and joy over mere structural integrity or complexity.
Themes
ArchitectureDesignPleasureExperienceInnovation
In practice
Example use cases
In a presentation about modern architecture, this quote can highlight the importance of user experience.
More from Charles Eames
All quotes βIt is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.
Charles EamesRead
Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.
Charles EamesRead
It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do.
Charles EamesRead
To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.
Charles EamesRead
Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.
Charles EamesRead
Similar quotes
The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided and shaped by my text, but then transformed, elucidated, expanded, edited, and clarified by their own experience, their own desires, their own hopes and fears.
Orson Scott CardRead
I try to improvise like Les Young, Louis Armstrong or someone else I admire. What comes out is what I feel.
Billie HolidayRead
The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting.
Paul GauguinRead
Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.
Margaret AtwoodRead
With almost no exceptions, art by men is much more expensive than art by women. Even great women artists, like Louise Bourgeois and Lee Krasner, are only fully embraced very late in their career.
Siri HustvedtRead
Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.
MichelangeloRead