Arts/architecture/design
- Maya Lin, architect, designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
- Gyo Obata, architect, designed the National Air and Space Museum
- IM Pei, renowend architect, designed the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Louvre Pyramid
- Mimi So, jewelry designer
- Minoru Yamasaki, architect, designed the World Trade Center
- Vern Yip, interior designer, appeared on TLC's Trading Spaces and HGTV's Deserving Design and Design Star
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Famous quotes containing the words arts, architecture and/or design:
“I should say that the most prominent scientific men of our country, and perhaps of this age, are either serving the arts and not pure science, or are performing faithful but quite subordinate labors in particular departments. They make no steady and systematic approaches to the central fact.... There is wanting constant and accurate observation with enough of theory to direct and discipline it. But, above all, there is wanting genius.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Art is a jealous mistress, and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The reason American cars don’t sell anymore is that they have forgotten how to design the American Dream. What does it matter if you buy a car today or six months from now, because cars are not beautiful. That’s why the American auto industry is in trouble: no design, no desire.”
—Karl Lagerfeld (b. 1938)