Top 1200 Japanese Architecture Quotes & Sayings - Page 18
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Last updated on April 17, 2025.
I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses
I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.
Architecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use.
If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.
Underwater, I experience space with my body. I'll see a school of fish gathering and moving together and I'll exclaim, 'This is architecture.'
A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts
There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face; it's like architecture or mathematics.
I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes.
One of the great tragedies is that there is so much less open land available in Japan today. Many Japanese come to New Zealand because of its beauty.
Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere.
If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration.
Shoe design is like architecture - with the finest structure and tight, precise seams, it suits my obsessive neatness.
The beauty of my profession [architecture] lies in its randomness and surprise. And don't think I can choose my projects. I have to build what's offered to me.
It would be great if people could guess right off that I am Japanese-Finnish-American. But then I'd have to be wearing a kimono and pulling a reindeer.
It is impossible to remain indifferent to Japanese culture. It is a different civilisation where all you have learnt must be forgotten. It is a great intellectual challenge and a gorgeous sensual experience.
Architecture is a political act, by nature. It has to do with the relationships between people and how they decide to change their conditions of living.
I am not an enthusiast when it comes to cities, preferring rolling scenery, wildlife and stars to museums, monuments, architecture and traffic.
Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.
I'm sure one of the frustrations of being a Western enthusiast of Japanese food and culture is you're confronted every day with the absolute certainty that you will die ignorant.
Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.
The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.
What I want for Christmas is to be a Japanese pop star. [Laughs] Santa can't exactly put that under the tree, but I'm hoping that some magic will happen overseas.
Architecture and architectural freedom are above all a social issue that must be seen from inside a political structure, not from outside it.
Architecture is the art of reconciliation between ourselves andthe world, and this mediation takes place through the senses
Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture.
When I visit any cathedral, it reminds me of being with my grandparents. They weren't particularly religious, but my grandfather was obsessed with architecture.
I don't believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind
A novel is a piece of architecture. It's not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It's a building-it has to have walls and floors and the bathrooms have to work.
Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.
Nobody now fears that a Japanese fleet could deal an unexpected blow on our Pacific possessions. Radio makes surprise impossible.
Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken.
Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.
It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the glory of its architecture.
For a long time, nobody had figured out Information Architecture, so we all just made stuff up.
Innovation and corporate governance are extremely important to improve the profitability of Japanese companies and encourage them to increase wages, capital spending, and dividends.
Any sort of working drawings are simply diagrams. Architecture encourages your imagination to work that way.
As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture.
If we don't do it, somebody else will. The Chinese, the Europeans and the Japanese all have the goal of going to the moon. Certainly we don't want to wake up and see that they have a base there before we do.
People are moving into modes of participation and self-generation, which apply to everything from museums and television to architecture.
Japan is very cosmopolitan - it values its origins, but a world view hovers above this narrow perspective. The interest of the Japanese in their folk culture is transcendental.
Australia and New Zealand are now threatened by the might of the Imperial Japanese forces, and both of them should know that any resistance is futile.
I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation.
The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.
The Green Climate Fund is very much a strategic building block in the architecture for financing sustainable development.
I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses.
I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller.
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
The main selling appeal of NAFTA to US corporations is that it gives them an advantage in the North American market over their European and Japanese competitors.
The slurbs, urban sprawl, and the infinite number, of housing developments of the postwar boom have contributed to the architecture of entropy.
Nevertheless, China was unfortunately unable to understand Japan's real position, and it is greatly to be regretted that the Sino-Japanese War became one of long duration.
Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if youre not careful.
The purpose of architecture is to transmute the emptiness into space, that is into something which our minds can grasp as an organized unity.
Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.
The Japanese people and their country left a huge impression on my wife and I, and we found it difficult to say goodbye before moving back to South America.
When we were working on 'River Ota' in the '90s, I learnt to read Japanese, which was how I discovered that it incorporates elements of Chinese calligraphy.
80% of the mistakes you will make in information architecture can be caught if you bring in a great usability expert from the beginning.
It's never that hard for me to imagine what it must feel like to be someone else, whether it's an American teenage girl or a Japanese octogenarian man.
Architecture is not created, it is discovered – the hand will find solutions before the mind can even comprehend them.
There is no single 'China model' to running a mega-economy. Instead, it is a blend. From the Europeans and the Japanese, the Chinese have borrowed the concept of protecting essential industries.
