Top 1200 Japanese Architecture Quotes & Sayings - Page 14
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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.
In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture.
Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.
By the unification of architecture, sculpture and painting a new plastic reality will be created.
A languid janitor bears
His lantern through colonnades
And the architecture swoons.
I saw the film Pearl Harbour and it made me wish that the Japanese had bombed Hollywood instead!
A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.
You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony.
Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.
The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.
Today, architecture is invention. It isn't enough to just be rational - It must also be beautiful.
I love the South Bank: every era of architecture is there, and you can stop, look, and listen.
The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.
It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.
Architecture is about the understanding of the world and turning it into a more meaningful and humane place.
People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.
The purpose of architecture is to create an atmosphere in which man can live, work, and enjoy.
I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
Architecture is measured against the past, you build in the present, and try to imagine the future.
Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form.
Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.
Great architecture has only two natural enemies: water and stupid men.
The Japanese Co-Prosperity Zone began as a racist utopia and ended as a cross between an abbatoir, a plantation and a brothel.
In pursuing a ‘way,’ Japanese typically move beyond an interest in craftsmanship to a kind of sacred search for the ultimate.
The only reason that there has been no sabotage or espionage on the part of Japanese-Americans is that they are waiting for the right moment to strike.
I love Japanese and Thai food, especially seafood, and eat out with my wife two or three times a week.
I love food, and my girlfriend comes from an architecture background, so we might open up a restaurant.
When I moved to Switzerland to study at ETH Zurich I became fascinated by Swiss architecture.
The Frank Matcham theaters in the West End in particular are incredible pieces of architecture.
While doing my architecture from the Parsons School of Design, I also did theatre.
When we project the specific organization of the human body into the space outside it, then we have architecture.
Architecture is a special kind of career that showcases the accumulations of culture, time, and history.
I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.
From Architecture down to the Zodiac, every science worthy of the name was imported by the Greeks
I don't really get into architecture in the hotel room. But maybe a little Feng Shui here and there.
Most of what you see in architecture are watered-down ideas of sculptors who have come before.
If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.
The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.
Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music; so is statuary crystalized spirituality.
I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.
I love architecture, but I learned early on that architects just don't make a lot of money.
I got a degree in architecture for the educational experience but in terms of career, everything is cinema.
Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made.
If you're a director and you pay homage to Japan, you're definitely going to remember what you've learned from watching the Japanese masters' films.
The anti-Japanese resistance was as familiar a theme in North Korean cinema as cowboys and Indians was in early Hollywood.
If the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eaton, the Japanese bases in the Pacific were captured on the beaches of the Caribbean.
The architecture of war and violence is now matched by a barrage of goods parading as fashion.
In architecture, Palladio is the game. It means hard thought all through - if it is labored, it fails.
Throughout the ages it has always been possible to point to good and bad architecture.
Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.
The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US.
I think of architecture as language, and I look within the intra-communication between architects.
Architecture has a strong link with the movies in terms of time progression, sequencing, framing, all of that.
When I went to school at Emerson, I was completely charmed living there and loved the architecture of the Back Bay.
Architecture is about ideas in the first place. You don't get to design until you have an idea.
I dont have a huge breakfast, and I sometimes forget to have lunch, so I focus on dinner. I love Thai and Japanese food.
Chinese architecture has a complete organic structure; it contains both sensibility and purpose.
London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place.
Open-source code is extremely well-adapted to service-oriented architecture.
The Fire Department has traditionally considered architecture a priority only when it’s burning down.
