Japanese architecture Quotes

Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.

— Minoru Yamasaki

Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.

— Tadao Ando

First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open…

— Gustav Stickley

If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of…

— Minoru Yamasaki

Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from Japanese architectural…

— Tadao Ando

After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings,…

— Harry Seidler

There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea. First, there is the…

— Gustav Stickley

I recently wrote a piece on comics in architecture - I was talking about the three kinds of comics I pay attention…

— Jimenez Lai

You could say that my aim is ‘to recover the place’. The place is a result of nature and time; this is…

— Kengo Kuma

“The world headquarters of Fukai Semiconductor was housed in a mammoth, sprawling building of glass, polished aluminum and native rock that seemed…

— David Hagberg