“In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.”– Charles Eames Related Quotes “I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That’s art to me.”– Maya Lin “No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.”– Michael Ende “Make big plans aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.”– Daniel Burnham