Quotes of: Japanese-architecture Keyword

The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.

Carlos Ghosn

Japanese people have a funny habit of abbreviating names.

Shigeru Miyamoto

Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless.

Moshe Safdie

Architecture cannot change the economic machinations of globalization.

Architecture, Ethics and Globalization

I'm afraid Japanese people tend to collective hysteria.

Tadashi Yanai

It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual prerequisites of architectural appreciation. We might, quite aside from all other requirements, need to be a l...

The Architecture of Happiness

Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials of the same tendencies which in other domains will lead us to marry the wrong people, choose inappropriate jobs and book unsucce...

The Architecture of Happiness

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.

Stephen Gardiner

When I go on Japanese Airlines, I really love it because I like Japanese food.

Phil Collins

O-Ren Ishii: Your instrument is quite impressive. Where was it made? The Bride: Okinawa. O-Ren Ishii: [in Japanese] Whom in Okinawa made you this steel? The Bride: [in Japanese] Hattori Hanzo. O-Ren Ishii: [in Japanese] YOU LIE! [the Bride shows Hatt...

Kill Bill: Vol. 1

The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture.

Alvar Aalto

Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.

Frank Stella

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Japanese had never seen a Western-style circus, and most of them had probably never seen foreigners, either.

Professor Risley and the Imperial Japanese Troupe: How an American Acrobat Introduced Circus to Japan--and Japan to the West

Unosuke, gunfighter: [in Japanese] By the way, those six men were cut up pretty well. You're the only one around here good enough to have done something like that. Sanjuro: [in Japanese] And your point? Unosuke, gunfighter: [in Japanese] I'm thinking...

Yojimbo

I'd not underestimate the competitive powers of the Japanese people.

John Roos

In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.

J. Paul Getty

The door handle is the handshake of the building.

The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses

There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture. But that doesn't hold up.

Frank Gehry

There is no sadder tale in the annals of architecture than the virtual disappearance of the defining architectural form of the Modern Movement - publicly sponsored housing.

Martin Filler

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

Philip Johnson