History Quote by Kengo Kuma Download Open image “EMBRACING THE EXISTING Japanese perspective on urban history and context” — Kengo Kuma ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Inspirational Love Perspective Urban
Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter. — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
I think it is one of the common themes for many Japanese people to choose where to live: Tokyo or their hometown. — Makoto Shinkai Copy Share Image
“The overriding sense of Tokyo...is that it is a city devoted to the new, sped up in a subtle but profound way: a postmodern… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
“Twenty million people live and work in Tokyo. It’s so big that nobody really knows where it stops. It’s long since filled up the plain, and now it’s creeping up the mountains to the west and reclaiming land from the bay in the east. The city never stops rewriting itself. In the time one street guide is produced, it’s already… — David Mitchell Copy Share
“We hope that general readers with an interest in Japan will find in these accounts of fieldwork a wide spectrum of illustrations of the… — Theodore C. Bestor Copy Share Image
Tokyo & Kyoto are two of my favorites. I like how Japanese cities live in harmony with their natural surroundings, with gardens and forests… — Baiju Bhatt Copy Share Image
As a young artist in New York, I thought about postwar Japan - the consumer culture and the loose, deboned feeling prevalent in the… — Takashi Murakami Copy Share Image
“Japan is probably the best... example of the abandonment of an ancient and nature-oriented ethos for the spirit of progress, Western style.” — John Livingston. from "One Cosmic Moment Copy Share Image
“Thus, one way to consolidate power is to reinvigorate history issues and generate popular animosity towards Japan.” — Naval Postgraduate School Copy Share Image
If you go to Tokyo, I think it becomes very obvious that there's this almost seamless mixture of popular culture and Japanese traditional culture. — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I grew up in the countryside and wanted to go to Tokyo. I had Tokyo complex. — Makoto Shinkai Copy Share Image
“The Japanese had no idea what elements of Western culture and institutions where the crucial ones, so they ended up copying everything, from western… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
You could say that my aim is ‘to recover the place’. The place is a result of nature and time; this is the most… — Kengo Kuma Copy Share Image
“Cutting stone to the optimum basic size for building secure, aesthetically pleasing combinations was tantamount to establishing the smallest prime integer without which there… — Kengo Kuma Copy Share Image
“Architecture forms a vital link between people and their surroundings. It acts as a gentle buffer between the fragility of human existence and the… — Kengo Kuma Copy Share Image
“Our animal selves only really react to actual materials. Our bodies don't twitch at a drawing, so it's important to start a dialogue with… — Kengo Kuma Copy Share Image
“Nature is synonymous with change and potential. Whatever seems fixed and immutable within our myopic human time-span, is still in flux over glacial aeons… — Kengo Kuma Copy Share Image
If we could combine Starbucks spirit with the spirit of the artisan, we knew we could achieve something special. — Kengo Kuma Copy Share Image
“But can there ever be a 100 per-cent achievement in architecture? I only distrust those who take that level of satisfaction in their work.… — Kengo Kuma Copy Share Image
“Natural materials always cause unforeseeable problems despite the most careful planning. They break and rot and split. Inconsistencies are both their charm and their… — Kengo Kuma Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
