Architecture Quote by Tadao Ando

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

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

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

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

— Tadao Ando

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

— Stephen Gardiner

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

Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.

— Tadao Ando

Writing generally, it may be said that in design, roof, and general aspect, Japanese Buddhist temples are all alike. The sacred architectural idea expresses…

— Isabella Bird

In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world.

— Stephen Gardiner

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

Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.

— Philip Johnson