"It's Supergraphics. The whole idea of Supergraphics, is to knock down walls with paint...to change the apparent shape of rooms, bring order to rambling
space, break up boxlike confines—all by applying outsized designs to floors, walls and ceilings...And if it doesn't look right, you can just paint it out." - LIFE magazine,
May 3, 1968
"It has been said that art will only survive into the future if it is closely linked to architecture. We feel that if there is a way in which this marriage can be brought about,
then it is the way pointed out by Barbara Stauffacher." -ABITRARE, a Milano design magazine, October 1970
"The graphics grew out of the architectural forms and out of Mrs. Stauffacher's own vocabulary of forms:
Arrows leading into each side of the building, up the stairs; stripes progress around corners . . . make the rooms appear bigger . . . accentuate the sense of movement.
In spite of Michelangelo's four-year stint on the Sistine Chapel, and Stauffacher's three days at Sea Ranch, graphics still come hard to most modern architects."
-P/A, March 1967, Maude Dorr: "Bathhouse Graphics: Make It Fun, Kid"
"Indeed, Miss Stauffacher is one of those rare graphic artists who conceive their work architectonically, in terms of multi-dimensional structure and space, rather than merely
thin two-dimensional exercises on paper...her work speaks for itself. Strong, lucid, rational, and elegantly disciplined, yet at the same time brimming with freshness and spontaneity, and
fearless in color and scale, her compositions do not merely decorate the buildings they enhance, but are inseparable from their basic architectural meanings." -Allan Temko,
Pulitzer Prize Architectural Critic
"There are few things contemporary architecture needs more than a sensitive symbiosis with color, texture, and shape. There is a joyous element in Miss Stauffacher's art
which lifts the spirit, and creates an environmental identity which is usually lacking in our Miesian heritage." -Sibyl Moholy-Nagy