Have we reached a moment when we are capable of designing only bland office parks and lightly nostalgic shopping malls?
If Sparano could build a cinder block wall, Mornhinweg is capable of designing that dream home on the water.
By turning man into a "machine made by the hands of God,' he tacitly turned into gods those who were capable of designing & making machines.
"Those people [in community projects] are entirely capable of designing new ways of working but my greatest fear is there won't be anyone left to work with," she said.
If you need one more thing to be grateful for on Thanksgiving, here's one: that someone, somewhere is still capable of designing a high-tech appliance no more challenging than a blender.
The software suite, capable of designing a Mirage fighter jet, is more efficient than the hand sketches or computer-aided design tools traditionally used in watch design and "considerably shortens design time," Mr. Quentin said.
"I feel completely in tune with this new orientation," said Mr. Theyskens, who added that he felt capable of designing anything from a glass to a cellphone, and that Theory has promised to give him total creative freedom.
David Brooks offers a cogent analysis of how we humans, while capable of designing and producing the most wondrously complicated and dangerous technologies, are utterly unsuited to use them safely.
It sounds promising, and Parry is eminently capable of designing an elegant obelisk, although another insider is less kind, describing it as a steroidal version of One Canada Square in Canary Wharf, so big that it will "block out the entire solar system".
His insights often have to do with personality and character; he knows his players as athletes and as people, with the result that they trust that he, better than anybody, is capable of designing roles that place their skills at optimal advantage.
