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Industrial design professor Shim Jae-jin has been carrying a pen by the German fountain pen company LAMY in his suit pocket for 12 years. Over the years, he developed affection toward it to the point where he doesn’t go anywhere without it. “I always check whether I have the pen in my suit pocket and if it’s not there, I look for it everywhere,” said Shim. “It’s such a timeless design without unnecessary add-ons,” he added. Design greatly influences our lives, more than most of us realize. A…

Antoni Gaudí i Cornet was a Spanish architect from Catalonia. He is the best known practitioner of Catalan Modernism. Gaudí's works have a highly

"The sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building." (Louis Kahn)

Here we have a selection of architecture quotes, insights and words of wisdom from some of the world’s most famous past and present architects …hoping to

"Architecture... is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order." #ArchitectQuotes #Architecture #FrankLloydWright