“The first 10 years of my professional life had only to do with running away from my father. He was a wonderful cabinet-maker, and me being the eldest son, I had to take over his shop, his profession and so on and so on. I tried to escape by going to art school and then going on to industrial design and then interior design.” YearsFirstsArtRunningSchoolFatherWonderfulDesignSonProfessionShopsMakersRunning AwayInteriorsCabinetsInterior DesignArt SchoolProfessional LifeEldestIndustrial DesignEldest Son Author:Peter Zumthor
“I majored in illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design, although I never had any intention of being an illustrator and didn't take any classes in illustration there. It was just that the illustration degree had no requirements.” SchoolClassDesignDegreesIntentionIslandsRequirementsIllustrationIllustratorsRhode Island Author:Brian Selznick
“I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design.” SchoolDesignHigh SchoolFinishedIslandsRhode Island Author:Stephen Sprouse
“Charters give public school teachers the flexibility to design programs to the individual student needs. They no longer have to go to a distant bureaucracy to ask for permission. By being allowed to make their own decisions the teachers are able to create strong partnerships with parents.” NeedsGivingAbleSchoolAsksIndividualStrongParentDecisionTeacherDesignStudentsProgramPartnershipPermissionBureaucracyFlexibilityPublic SchoolCharterSchool Teachers Author:Gary Larson
“When I started designing in school, I discovered that I had a knack for it. I fell completely in love with architecture, and I remain in love with it.” SchoolDesignArchitectureKnack Author:Cesar Pelli
“I have always accepted and respected all other schools of architecture, from the chill and elemental structures of Mies van der Rohe to the imagination and delirium of Gaudi. I must design what pleases me in a way that is naturally linked to my roots and the country of my origin.” WayCountrySchoolImaginationDesignPleaseRootsStructureArchitectureAcceptedLinkedChillVansElementalsDeliriumPlease MeGaudiMies Van Der Rohe Author:Oscar Niemeyer
“I'm anticlerical, not antireligion. If somebody believes there is God, I'm not interested in trying to persuade that person there is no intelligent design to the universe. Where I become interested and wake up is about the temporal power of religion, things like prayer in schools, or Catholic-secular hospital mergers.” IfsTryingBelievePersonsSchoolUniversePrayerAtheismDesignWake UpIntelligentCatholicPositive AtheismHospitalsNot InterestedSecularIntelligent DesignMergersPrayer In School Author:Katha Pollitt
“When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential.” InspirationalSchoolFunnyLostMiddleDesignStudentsHigh SchoolThirdsCrowdsGraduatesPeersGraduationDisconnectedHigh School Students Author:Christine Gregoire
“I graduated from school for graphic design, and I started to get into acting class just to get over severe fright. I was an extremely shy person. I could barely say hello to anybody.” PersonsSchoolActingClassDesignShySevereGet OverHelloGraphicGraphic DesignFrightActing ClassesShy Person Author:Trevor Donovan