Architecture Quote by Kengo Kuma Download Open image “The criteria for architecture after the tsunami is humbleness” — Kengo Kuma ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architecture Criteria Humbleness Tsunami
Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all. — Harry Seidler Copy Share Image
Somehow, architecture alters the way we think about the world and the way we behave. Any serious architecture, as a litmus test, has to… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
Think about what happens when architecture becomes ruins. All you have left are some little columns on a cliff, but it's still such an… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment. — Cedric Price Copy Share Image
Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads. — Paul Goldberger Copy Share Image
Architecture is the very mirror of life.You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit… — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
Architecture is about the understanding of the world and turning it into a more meaningful and humane place. — Juhani Pallasmaa Copy Share Image
The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“architecture to spiritually uplift and thought it was a very bad idea to build functional, uninspired blocks of flats that would depress both their… — Menna van Praag 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
EMBRACING THE EXISTING Japanese perspective on urban history and context — 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
The bones of my architecture are very much related to the structure, to the physical fact of how a building can stand up; it's… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to,… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image
The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place. — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
A wiki works best where you're trying to answer a question that you can't easily pose, where there's not a natural structure that's known… — Ward Cunningham Copy Share Image
Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived. — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
