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Buildings Quotes by Minoru Yamasaki
- We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.
- I feel this way about it. World trade means world peace and consequently the World Trade Center buildings in New York ... had a bigger…
- I want to do very useful buildings and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology because I think…
- I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.
- And exciting buildings are fine periodically.
- Because, if we understand how a building is to be produced and we find a way that it can be more simply produced, then obviously…
- But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral, for…
- If you look at the buildings, you'll find that one part looks as if it was designed by one man, and you go around and…
- In this tour around the world I was not interested in contemporary buildings because I had seen contemporary buildings actually until they came out of…
- So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as…
- I feel this is very important for us to have serene buildings because our civilization is chaotic as it is, you see; our whole machine…
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