Top 1200 Japanese Architecture Quotes & Sayings - Page 19
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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
The architect's role is to fight for a better world, where he can produce an architecture that serves everyone and not just a group of privileged people.
I think generally the Japanese players have more intensity in practice but generally I do the same things.
In Japanese sushi restaurants, a lot of sushi chefs talk too much.
We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.
Americans really don't understand the Japanese nature, but it's not an easy thing to understand.
I think that the Japanese culture is one of the very few cultures left that is its own entity. They're just so traditional and so specific in their ways. It's kind of untouched, it's not Americanized.
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
As a total activity - I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature.
Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for me.
Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.
Seattle is the place where you can really find any kind of food, especially Japanese food.
Architecture does not change anything. It's always on the side of the wealthy. The important thing is to believe that it can make life better.
I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it.
Aesthetically, London is just beautiful; it's a gorgeous city. The architecture, monuments, the parks, the small streets - it's an incredible place to be.
I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.
He was of opinion that what we now vulgarly call the Gothick, ought properly and truly be named Saracenick Architecture refined by the Christians.
You don't need to go to Rome, Prague or Vienna to find wonderful architecture, amazing stories and suprising, hidden gems.
Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.
I'm Japanese, and I'm also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
To me, the fashion and architecture I like are very closely linked. Both should be clean and simple and without embellishment.
The joining of the Japanese with the French should make a new movement. I think it should be good for Paris.
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
I don't think we can even compare ourselves to the Japanese or the Chinese players in any way, given their richly-funded programs and their methodical approach to sport.
My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did.
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
Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of.
I went to a foreign country as a Japanese actor, not a Hollywood actor. This takes courage.
They've certainly grown, the Japanese. I mean grown in stature, playing-wise.
With the beginning of any record for an artist there's a certain amount of time of finding the blueprint and trying to find what the architecture is of the sound.
It's a tough line, Japanese and western games. We wanted to blur that line.
I have a huge amount of respect for all Japanese designers because I think there is consistency and respect to craft.
The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed.
I think a lot of Japanese morals are built around what the dead would think of us.
I've had a Japanese judge, a Mexican judge in the past, and they have done some ridiculous scoring.
Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting.
I've always been interested in combining architecture with a social agenda, and I really think you can invest and be inventive with hospitals and housing.
One of the stated goals of the postmodern movement in architecture was a greater sensitivity to the people who live in or use newly designed buildings.
India and Egypt have been strongly influencing each other's culture, arts and architecture since ancient times.
Art in progress. MAK has occupied a unique and valuable space as international host for discourse between the arts and architecture.
I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning
What resonates culturally with me about Japanese style is that it is very covered up but very sensual.
It is good to learn from the ancients. I'm a bit of an ancient myself. They had a lot of time to think about architecture and landscape.
I seem to go through phases with collecting stuff: vintage Japanese men's magazines, coconut monkey carvings, '70s belt buckles.
The Japanese had, in fact, already sued for peace. The atomic bomb played no decisive part, from a purely military point of view, in the defeat of Japan.
If you're afraid and don't let yourself get to empty, you'll never build your conditioning. I learned that from my Japanese trainer, Tokyo Joe, a long time ago.
The blurring of fantasy and reality is something that the Japanese herald in their life, in their day-to-day commercialism.
Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?
I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning.
I am an admirer of haiku, and I'm a great admirer of Japanese literature in general.
Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in something that is perfectly rational.
Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.
Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads.
A bathroom should be sterile and beautiful and functional. It should exude Japanese-style purity.
We need a new health care architecture that will reduce costs, improve outcomes, and protect vulnerable persons.
The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese.
I don't mean to be a racist but if you're going to get raped by a Japanese guy, it's not going to hurt at all.
I think all good architecture should challenge you, make you start asking questions. You don't have to understand it. You may not like it. That's OK.
I'm a huge, huge lover of weaponry, of Japanese martial arts movies.
Churches have given us great treasures such as music and architecture. Whether that pays for the harm they have done is another matter.
