I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature.
If you look at what I do, there's no consistency. The consistency is that there is no consistency. I do projects that are good and not so good.
So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
Across professions, consistency is a direct product of work ethic.
There's a consistency in my work that pops up independent of the limitations of the technology.
To me, style is consistency.
In Gov. Huckabee's case, consistency is seen as principle... and that's incredibly valuable to voters.
Don't be 'consistent', but be simply true.
Consistency for me is everything.