Quotes of: Japanese-architecture Keyword

A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims.

The Architecture of Community

It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value.

The Architecture of Happiness

The reason for the difference between the architectural and engineering 'climate', so to speak, is very complex. It is partly a matter of terminology, partly a matter of historical accident, and the consequent training of architects and engineers, an...

Co-Designers: Cultures of Computer Simulation in Architecture

It was painful to consider that the nation which could produce the world's greatest battleships was unable under pressure to produce a single satisfactory torpedo boat.

Japanese Destroyer Captain: Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Midway - The Great Naval Battles As Seen Through Japanese Eyes

The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed.

Bernard Tschumi

It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone.

Frank Gehry

But I feel truly wowed by the architecture and the meaning of the architecture if you get lost in it and think about the man hours in the smallest little chapel, and the love involved. God it's fantastic.

Paul Bettany

Violent overthrow of the revolution is revolutionary, and compromise with the revolution is revolutionary.

Angels in the Architecture: A Protestant Vision for Middle Earth

Forests were the first temples of God and in forests men grasped their first idea of architecture.

Introduction to Architecture

Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up.

Louis Kahn

Girly’ products can spur Japan’s growth in this century every bit as much as, if not more than, the ‘manly’ technologies.

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

It was not my intention whatsoever for the Japanese government to try to get me out of trouble. And I really appreciate the Japanese government for all they have done for me.

Robert Jenkins

The Japanese press likes me a lot, but the problem is the Japanese government. It's very bureaucratic.

Shuji Nakamura

I have a lot of Japanese friends: I grew up in Vancouver, and there's this huge Japanese population over there.

Grimes

This may seem labouring the obvious, but in Japan one meets intelligent people who claim that ‘logic’ is something invented in the West to allow Westerners to win discussions. Indeed, the belief is widespread that the Japanese can as happily do w...

The Enigma of Japanese Power: People and Politics in a Stateless Nation

In any East Asian culture, you will find that women have a very tangible power within the household. This is often rejcted by non-Asian feminists who argue that it is not real power, but.. Japanese women look at the low status attributed to the domes...

Broken Silence: Voices of Japanese Feminism

Nobody sees it happening, but the architecture of our time Is becoming the architecture of the next time.

Blizzard of One

Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. I'm not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place.

Annabelle Selldorf

Mies van der Rohe's architecture and modern architecture in general suffered from not only being repetitive, but not explaining to the populous what the different rooms were for.

Charles Jencks

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Some people think architecture is about the genius sketch; I don't. Great architecture is a collaboration among a lot of people over a long period of time.

Joshua Prince-Ramus