Quotes of: Japanese-architecture Keyword

I practised as an architect for 10 years. I qualified in 1973 with a fellowship diploma of architecture. World Series Cricket gave me the freedom to go out and pursue architecture.

Max Walker

My assumption was that all indigenous architecture would be more fractal. My reasoning was that all indigenous architecture tends to be organized from the bottom up. As it turns out, though, my reasoning was wrong.

Ron Eglash

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.

Rem Koolhaas

Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.

Tadao Ando

The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.

Thom Mayne

To say that someone is a conservative does not tell us what he is interested in conserving.

Angels in the Architecture: A Protestant Vision for Middle Earth

What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.

The Architecture of Happiness

It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.

The Architecture of Happiness

I think when you look at architectural photography it doesn't help to have piles of old clothes lying on the floor. Architectural photography sets up an artifice.

Annabelle Selldorf

Museum architectural search committees have invariably included the Kimbell in their international scouting tours of exemplary art galleries (a practice pioneered by Velma Kimbell, the founder’s widow, in 1964). Those groups no doubt respond to the...

Makers of Modern Architecture: From Frank Lloyd Wright to Frank Gehry

When the old way of seeing was displaced, a hollowness came into architecture. Our buildings show a constant effort to fill that void, to recapture that sense of life which was once to be found in any house or shed. Yet the sense of place is not to b...

The Old Way of Seeing: How Architecture Lost Its Magic - And How to Get It Back

Time is what we have in this life, and how we use it determines what our life is.

A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance

My goal is to draw a line with some 'flavor' to it.

A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance

Gift giving is part of the culture no matter where you are and no matter how long you stay.

Doing Business with Japanese Men: A Woman's Handbook

He did not care about titles and was proud to be a farmer beyond all else.

The Forgotten Japanese: Encounters with Rural Life and Folklore

Any connoisseur knows you've got to be drunk to really enjoy a good romance.

Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy

When you find yourself looking ridiculous, reasoning isn't worth a damn.

Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy

People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat--that's the only moral they know.

I Am a Japanese Writer

Poverty and loneliness could be seen as a liberation from strivings to become rich and popular.

A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics

If my home is indeed a sanctuary, I want to treat everything I bring into it as sacred.

The Wabi-Sabi House: The Japanese Art of Imperfect Beauty

People often say that videogames made by Western developers are somehow different in terms of taste for the players, in comparison with Japanese games. I think that means that the Western developers and Japanese developers, they are good at different...

Shigeru Miyamoto