A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and to function.
Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.
Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.
Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.
My sense of designing is a mix of intuition and intellectual control.
The engineer performs many public functions from which he gets only philosophical satisfactions. Most people do not know it, but he is an economic and social force.
The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
To design something really new and innovative you have to reject reason.
All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an ensemble of correct assumptions and valid calculations.
You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony.