“We spend our time sending messages to each other, talking and trying to listen at the same time, exchanging information. This seems to be our most urgent biological function; it is what we do with our lives.” TryingSeemsTalkingOur LivesInformationCommunicationMessagesFunctionOur TimeUrgentExchangingSending A Message Book:A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays
“Our time has produced a need for contrast. This has been achieved not only in the external appearance of plastic expressions of coulor and matter, but also, and chiefly, in the tempo of life and in the techniques related to the daily, mechanical functions of life; namely standing, walking, driving, to lying and sitting - in short, every action which determines the content of architecture.” NeedsHas BeensMatterActionLyingExpressionWalkingSittingStandingFunctionDetermineAppearanceArchitectureTechniqueDrivingRelatedOur TimeContrastPlasticTempoExternal Appearance Author:Theo van Doesburg
“If advertising has invaded the judgment of children, it has also forced its way into the family, an insolent usurper of parental function, degrading parents to mere intermediaries between their children and the market. This indeed is a social revoluation in our time!” IfsWayChildrenSocialParentBusinessJudgmentFunctionMereAdvertisingOur TimeParentalDegradingInsolentUsurpers Author:Jules Henry
“It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.” FactsHelpingSchoolEducationEmotionalIntellectualFunctionBoundsIntelligenceEducationalLimitationOur TimeGreat EducationGreat EducationalInspirational EducationInspirational EducationalValue Of Education Author:T. S. Eliot
“And just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, just as we must understand functions, so we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors of our day. No cultural activity is possible otherwise; for we are dependent on the spirit of our time.” SpiritualSpiritMaterialsActivityFunctionFamiliarPsychologicalFactorsOur TimeDependent Author:Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
“Design acknowledges change. Its meaning encompasses change in our times. To design is to 'create order and to function according to a plan.' The notion of change and design move along the same path.” MovingOrderPathPlansDesignFunctionNotionAcknowledgeOur Time Author:Sara Little Turnbull
“People need immediate places to refresh, reinvent themselves. Our surroundings built and natural alike, have an immediate and a continuing effect on the way we feel and act, and on our health and intelligence. These places have an impact on our sense of self, our sense of safety, the kind of work we get done, the ways we interact with other people, even our ability to function as citizens in a democracy. In short, the places where we spend our time affect the people we are and can become.” PeopleWayNeedsFeelsKindSelfDoneNaturalAbilityWalksDemocracyJourneyEffectsCitizensWalkingBenefitsBuiltFunctionSafetyImpactWanderOur TimeHikingContinuingSurroundingsTrekkingSense Of SelfStrollingSauntering Author:Tony Hiss