Top 1200 Japanese Architecture Quotes & Sayings - Page 17
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Last updated on April 17, 2025.
If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it.
In fact, the public will accept any city plan and skyline provided that its architecture is traditional.
There are many satisfactions in public architecture but one of the greatest is the moment when you unveil a project and suddenly a group of adults
In architecture, the demand was no longer for box-like forms, but for buildings that have something to say to the human emotions.
In general, Tor architecture is not suited for protecting anonymity of long-term, popular web services.
We have no sociology of architecture. Architects are unaccustomed to social analysis and mistrust it; sociologists have fatter fish to fry.
The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
When I was in architecture school at Princeton, the worst thing you could say about someone was that they were eclectic.
In Japanese culture, there is a belief that God is everywhere - in mountains, trees, rocks, even in our sympathy for robots or Hello Kitty toys.
It's a Samurai story [47 ronin], so if we change too much Japanese audiences will have strong against feelings to the film. It's not good.
This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.
I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way.
The recipe to an unhappy life in Japan is to want to be Japanese if you are not. Anyone who wants to penetrate the country is setting themselves up for tears and disappointment.
Japanese affection is not uttered in words; it scarcely appears even in the tone of voice; it is chiefly shown in acts of exquisite courtesy and kindness.
There's a kind of training, when you are sitting in a session in the Japanese tradition or any of the Buddhist traditions, taking your lotus posture or whatever it is. That's what you're doing.
I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process.
Walk into any Japanese fish market, and you'll see neat rows of sea urchin roe sold in little wooden trays.
I don't know how many serious Christians exist here in America, but the Japanese, the younger generation is leaving the Buddhist religion mentality behind.
Did not the artists of the great age of Japanese art change names many times during their careers? I like that; they wanted to safeguard their freedom.
When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary.
I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.
The Japanese Prime Minister has apologized for Japan's part in World War II. However, he still hasn't mentioned anything about karaoke.
In L.A., cinema and television might be seen as more interesting places for architecture than ever before.
Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.
Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way.
New York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought.
I was also always interested in the aesthetic realm - architecture and that kind of stuff - but music was my first love.
For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well.
I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.
I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
After I finished school, I went to JJ College of Architecture and then to Harvard. I did my B.A. with a major in filmmaking.
Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.
The Japanese, implementing a complex, long-term, and ultimately successful strategy to dominate the U S consumer-electronics market, attacked Pearl Harbor.
Architecture remains a passion and a subject I'm very interested in. I learned a great deal from studying it and working in it.
There's certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that.
It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.
Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones.
Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture.
In Japan, I am famous in certain special circles - mainly as someone who is trying to break down and enlighten the conventions of Japanese art.
The most enjoyable things are the old eighteenth-century terraces that are still standing, that domestic architecture.
I do think that many Americans have a limited view of what constitutes Japanese cartooning based on what gets translated, so it's great to see an increase in diversity.
Once you understand the foundations of cooking - whatever kind you like, whether it's French or Italian or Japanese - you really don't need a cookbook anymore.
If the Japanese want to be taken seriously as world financial powers, they'd better quit using the same tailor as variety show chimps.
The impact of the creative industries, of design and architecture in particular, are of course economic and they are a great export opportunity.
In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.
I have a background in technology, design, architecture, arts and sciences. I see myself as a multi-dimensional person.
My private work is touched by this destiny of understanding that architecture and engineering have a social character and can serve the community.
The second is that the role of China trade in Japanese economy, important as it is, has often been exaggerated, as proven by our experience of the past 6 years.
At its best, [Japanese cooking] is inextricably meshed with aesthetics, with religion, with tradition and history. It is evocative of seasonal changes, or of one's childhood, or of a storm at sea.
If architecture is the history of all phallic emotion, the Empire State Building is utter catharsis, and we are sitting in its silhouette.
Learning Japanese was certainly a task, but my passion for the culture, as well as my will to communicate with fans and friends, always encouraged me to continue.
You see a lot of so-called architecture that part of the ego trip overpowers the functionality and the budget and all that stuff.
I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.
Architecture is one of the art forms best able to improve and revitalise cities both artistically and functionally.
The Japanese covet important symbols - their heroic past as enshrined in Yasukuni, the Imperial family which has never been sullied by scandal.
I was on a Japanese designers' pedestal - considered a maestro. My design was getting closer to a couturier's work, and I felt like I was missing something.
In the evenings the art of building gave way to that of music, which is architecture, too, though invisible.
What I worry about is not just Nissan, but Japanese manufacturers losing motivation to maintain production in Japan. The high yen is definitely a headwind.
Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.
(Japanese Government believes that if you have a big laboratory with all the latest equipment and good funding it will automatically lead to creativity. It doesn't work that way.
