Architecture Quotes

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.

When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.

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

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.

I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.

If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.

Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How good are you at going around obstacles?

Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.