Whatever you do in your decorating philosophy, be brave....never wish you hadn't taken your vision right to the end. Make a bold statement.
Roger Banks-Pye, Colefax and Fowler Interior Inspirations
While designing spatial restrictions should be regarded as a source for personal invention. As designers we have to use concepts (ideas, process, events) and objects (physical elements, materials, properties). Lying between both is the design process and we cannot have one without the other. To find an idea we need to identify interests, gather information, carry out research and consider the brief given by the client. To develop the idea we need to analyse the whole and focus on some.
I follow the principle of Tadao Ando (Japanese architect) which states that, to choose one thing means to flatly negate all else and we should negate without regret. His architecture emphasizes inner depth over outer beauty. When architecture has only beauty there is no strength in it and if it has no strength it has no emotive power. I feel that outer beauty does matter a lot but not to the extent of killing the identity of its existence. Tadao Ando also states that any sort of compromise introduces impurity into the space which many people tend to be rigid about. |
