Architecture Quote by Minoru Yamasaki Download Open image “Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.” — Minoru Yamasaki ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architecture Architecture Copied Copied Copied Country Country Country Europe Europe Japanese Japanese architecture
If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the… — Minoru Yamasaki Copy Share Image
In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe. — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I travel a lot. Japanese culture is very ancient and very strong. That's why most people who commission work from Japanese architects expect them… — Shigeru Ban Copy Share Image
Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis. — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In other words, I have no truck for anyone who goes out and does an eclectic building. — Minoru Yamasaki Copy Share Image
And I think that the environment is one very strong way to counterbalance the chaotic nature of our life. — Minoru Yamasaki Copy Share Image
In this tour around the world I was not interested in contemporary buildings because I had seen contemporary buildings actually until they came out… — Minoru Yamasaki Copy Share Image
And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important. — Minoru Yamasaki Copy Share Image
I feel this way about it. World trade means world peace and consequently the World Trade Center buildings in New York ... had a… — Minoru Yamasaki Copy Share Image
We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless. — Minoru Yamasaki Copy Share Image
But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral,… — Minoru Yamasaki Copy Share Image
If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the… — Minoru Yamasaki Copy Share Image
And sometimes I'm criticized. But I think that if those who criticize us will look at the reason why the shape is this, well… — Minoru Yamasaki 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
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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
