Quotes of: Japanese-architecture Keyword

In Japan, however, if you against someone and create a bad atmosphere, your relations may break-off completely. People tend to react emotionally, and most are afraid of being excluded from the group.

The Japanese Mind: Understanding Contemporary Japanese Culture

In Japan, so many emoticons have been created that it’s reasonable to assume Japanese appreciate their convenience more than anyone else.

Geeky-Girly Innovation: A Japanese Subculturalist's Guide to Technology and Design

We have to change from 'ego-architecture' to 'eco-architecture.'

Jaime Lerner

Modern architecture only becomes modern with its engagement with the media.

Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media

If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

Quincy Jones

Hattori Hanzo: What brings you to Okinawa? The Bride: I'm here to see a man. Hattori Hanzo: Oh yeah? You have a friend living in Okinawa? The Bride: Not quite. Hattori Hanzo: Not a friend? The Bride: I've never met him. Hattori Hanzo: Never? Who is h...

Kill Bill: Vol. 1

Cubism is a part of the daily life in Spain, it is in Spanish architecture. The architecture of other countries aleays follows the line of the landscape . . . but Spanish architecture always cuts the lines of the landscape.

Picasso

The '80s market was only a Japanese market. It was the Japanese outbidding each other for the most expensive works of art. When the Japanese economy went down the tubes, there was no one left to pay the prices that have been recorded for all of those...

Arne Glimcher

I think that the Japanese - and I do love Japanese cuisine and adore Japanese food culture - I think that they're going to plow through the entire world's fishing. They're going to eat everything anyways.

David Chang

The causes of the China Incident were the exclusion and insult of Japan throughout China, the exclusion of Japanese goods, the persecution of Japanese residents in China, and the illegal violation of Japanese rights.

Hideki Tojo

In order to live without creating any serious problems for the group's harmony, people avoid expressing their ideas clearly, even the point of avoiding giving a simple yes or no answer. If a person really wanted to say no, he or she said nothing at f...

The Japanese Mind: Understanding Contemporary Japanese Culture

They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.

Barney Ross

Sushi Bar Assistant: [Japanese] What'd ya want? The Bride: [English] I beg your pardon? Hattori Hanzo: [English] Oh..."drink" [makes drinking motion with hand] The Bride: [English] Oh, yes, a bottle of warm sake please. Hattori Hanzo: [English] Warm ...

Kill Bill: Vol. 1

The architects who benefit us most maybe those generous enough to lay aside their claims to genius in order to devote themselves to assembling graceful but predominantly unoriginal boxes. Architecture should have the confidence and the kindness to be...

The Architecture of Happiness

I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure. These abstractions play a role in many other disciplines, and those disciplines are now defin...

Rem Koolhaas

If you've seen 'Spirited Away', 'Spirited Away' is set in a very, very Japanese sensibility. And so, to Japanese audiences, when Sen would walk up, the main character, and look at this big building with a flag on it with Japanese writing on it, every...

John Lasseter

My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.

Parker Stevenson

The new fans of Japan won’t be Orientalists, but they will be anime-savvy.

Geeky-Girly Innovation: A Japanese Subculturalist's Guide to Technology and Design

There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff.

Peter Zumthor

what we call a home is merely any place that succeeds in making more consistenly available to us the important truths which the wider world ignores, or which our distracted and irresolute selves have trouble holding onto." (p123) Architecture of Happ...

The Architecture of Happiness

My Japanese isn’t much better today, but at least now I appreciate my duality more than when I was a punk kid.

Being Japanese American: A JA Sourcebook for Nikkei, Hapa . . . and Their Friends