Robin Day Quotes (23 Quotes)


    I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn't endure.


    No one ever contributed anything to my designs.

    We used to get published a lot. And there was this vodka advertisement... it embarrassed me a lot afterwards.

    I think it's really important to use your hands and get close to materials. To be up close to real things like rain and mud; to have contact with nature.


    I think there's a tendency for modern man to become dominated by gadgets and machines, taking us further and further away from the things I've been talking about.

    I think and hope there are far more people aware of the need to look after our future.

    That construction techniques, materials and economics are relevant. Along with that, hopefully, some poetry and pleasantness in terms of looks.

    Well, I'd probably go for any work I could get.

    I can't climb very seriously now but I was a bit of a freak.

    The PTA board is so thrilled to be able to give these funds to the schools. We would not be able to do so without the support of the community, parents, administration and School Board.

    Well the most successful of course was this Polypropylene chair.

    But I think it's important that things endure.

    There's this very vulnerable planet of ours with finite resources. Architects and designers have, I think, a fair responsibility for conserving energy and materials, and making things durable.

    Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time.

    I've always walked and climbed; spent a lot of time in the arctic and places.

    I'm not against vodka - they just asked us. They put out some story about us entertaining international celebrities with vodka, which of course wasn't true.

    I think the first things that are relevant are that things should work well; they should function.

    Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood.

    But I think I'm probably happiest about my work in the contract field auditoriums of concert halls, stadiums, theatres, stations, airports.

    We used to work an inordinate amount.

    I was born in High Wycombe, which was a furniture place. And it just seemed inevitable.

    You've got to build a career and a practice.


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