{"id":8,"date":"2010-08-16T22:04:27","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T22:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lo13.com\/attitude\/?p=8"},"modified":"2010-08-19T19:49:48","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T19:49:48","slug":"design-til-you-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lo13.com\/attitude\/2010\/08\/16\/design-til-you-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Design &#8216;Til You Die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Get rid of &#8220;retirement&#8221; from your vocabulary. Great designers don&#8217;t retire. They die. They design to the death. I&#8217;m certainly not Fuller or the Eames, but I can certainly design until I die.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Charles Eames<\/strong> died at age 71 on a consulting trip to St. Louis.<br \/>\n<strong>Buckminster Fuller<\/strong> died at 88, and released two books the same year he died.<br \/>\n<strong>Mies Van Der Rohe<\/strong> retired actually in 1958 died in 1969<br \/>\n<strong>Victor Papanek<\/strong> ??<br \/>\n<strong>Frank Lloyd Wright<\/strong> died at 91 and designed 7 buildings in his last year, with 9 buildings completing construction after his death.<br \/>\n<strong>Eileen Gray<\/strong> lived til 98, built a studio at 80 to keep working<br \/>\n<strong>Walter Gropius<\/strong> died at 86 when his Tower East in Shaker Heights was constructed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get rid of &#8220;retirement&#8221; from your vocabulary. Great designers don&#8217;t retire. They die. They design to the death. I&#8217;m certainly not Fuller or the Eames, but I can certainly design until I die. Charles Eames died at age 71 on a consulting trip to St. Louis. Buckminster Fuller died at 88, and released two books [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lo13.com\/attitude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lo13.com\/attitude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lo13.com\/attitude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lo13.com\/attitude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lo13.com\/attitude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lo13.com\/attitude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lo13.com\/attitude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lo13.com\/attitude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lo13.com\/attitude\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}