Top 1200 Japanese Architecture Quotes & Sayings - Page 13
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Last updated on April 22, 2025.
Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.
I think of architecture as a piece of clothing to wrap around human beings
There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree.
Britain loves a bargain, but you don't get good, lasting architecture on the cheap.
Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.
There are a great many things about architecture that are hidden from the untrained eye.
Architecture is about experience: not only visual but also what you can touch, what you can feel.
The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made in architecture.
Everything can draw inspiration: a vintage cloth, a book, a street-when I was in Japan, I was deeply inspired by Japanese pharmacies.
Koishikawa Korakuen Garden - one of Tokyo's oldest Japanese gardens, and one of the best spots for viewing the cherry blossoms.
I ended up as an American Studies Major but my real interest was architecture.
Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.
Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.
At the request of my Japanese colleagues, in 2000 we revisited the possibility of signing a peace treaty based on the 1956 agreement.
I get a lot of inspiration from Japanese manga, especially shoujo which tends to have elaborate and fantastical adventure plots.
Architecture depends on Order, Arrangement, Eurythmy, Symmetry , Propriety , and Economy.
For me, music and sound are both the language and underlying architecture of the cosmos.
Jardine is the largest dealer of Mercedes in the world. They also sell cars for two or three Japanese makers.
As long as the food is well prepared and not overdone, I think it tastes good. It doesn't matter if it's Chinese, Japanese, anything.
My architecture is easy to understand. And enjoy. I hope it also is hard to forget.
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
The moment the first American soldier sets foot on the Japanese mainland, all prisoners of war will be shot.
The back of Saint Peter's is one of the finest pieces of architecture I've ever seen.
One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city
Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.
A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy.
During high school, I wanted to work in architecture or engineering for no particular reason.
In architecture and interiors, as well as fashion, there is an interaction that is both functional and aesthetic.
This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in the glass and sculpture.
I ask you to remember that the Japanese troops are a strictly disciplined force and perform their duties with as little harmfulness as possible.
I love Sutton House in Clapton, a beautiful example of Tudor architecture.
The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.
Japanese would never 'restore' an antique. The signs of age and wear are to them its most beautiful qualities.
Beauty isn't what I'm primarily interested in [in architecture]. I think appropriateness is more important.
Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.
1936 is a very important year: a golden time for martial arts, right before the Japanese invasion.
In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.
I have two passions in my life. One is to raise the awareness of the internment of Japanese-American citizens. My other passion is the theater.
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
It has often been said that [...] the Japanese [are] geniuses at taking foreign ideas and adding a unique finishing touch.
Japan is not a Western democracy. The Japanese have kept their traditions, culture and heritage, but they have joined the community of free nations.
A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
The role of architecture, in terms of communication, is not going to drastically change either.
Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.
Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800.
It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.
The only reason I even learned Japanese was to figure out what my parents were getting me for Christmas.
I am very happy to help share the great treasure trove of Japanese content with the western world.
I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture.
I just split up with my girlfriend, but like the Japanese say, “They’ll be another one floating by any minute now.”
Clothing has been called intimate architecture. We want to go beyond that.
Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed.
I've always been attracted to classic patterns in architecture, music and drama.
Through the Australians, and the Japanese, too, I suppose, the Americans get their message across, but not in a heavy-handed way.
Architecture cannot be understood without some knowledge of the society it serves.
To really appreciate architecture, you may even need to commit a murder.
I try to be aware of technology and Japanese animation and old Belgian paintings, and get all my references from bits of everywhere.
There is one way that architecture is superior to sculpture, and that is scale. You can walk into a building and have it all around you.
In Japanese and Italian, the response to ["How are you?"] is "I'm fine, and you?" In German it's answered with a sigh and a slight pause, followed by "Not so good.
