Architecture Quote by Minoru Yamasaki

Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside…

— Tadao Ando

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

— Tadao Ando

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

— Harry Seidler

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.

— Stephen Gardiner

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

— 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 concepts, although…

— Tadao Ando

When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in…

— Tadao Ando

Doing anything in Japan as a sort of architecture - related project is just fantastic because they do everything so perfectly and so quickly.…

— Marc Newson

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

“No foreign architect of stature, such as I. M. Pei, resides in Japan. Foreign architects come to Japan on short-term contracts, erect a skyscraper…

— Alex Kerr

I believe that architecture, as anything else in life, is evolutionary. Ideas evolve; they don't come from outer space and crash into the drawing…

— Bjarke Ingels

I have a very strong sense of architecture in my novels. But at first it's sometimes like building a doorknob before you have a…

— Nicole Krauss