"In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route." ― Charles Eames Topic(s): Architecture More From Charles Eames "The details are not the details. They make the design." "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." "Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world." More In Architecture "The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning."― Arthur Erickson "Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art."― Adolf Loos "For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind."― James Rouse