And exciting buildings are fine periodically.Minoru YamasakiTheWorldMotivation.comTry New ThemeDownloadSharePin ItCopied to clipboard!“And exciting buildings are fine periodically.
“If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.”Minoru YamasakiArchitecture
“And I like the idea of change. Because I don't see why we should hang a painting on the wall and then just not think of it anymore because it's there like a piece of furniture.”
“With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.”Alain RobertBuildings
“I had a whistle-stop tour of Havana in a horse and carriage and couldn't stop taking photographs of the decaying yet enchanting buildings and people.”
“If you have white walls, human beings look better in a room than if you have red walls.”Minoru YamasakiBeings
“Being the gateway to a large city, St. Louis, I had felt from the very beginning that somehow this building should symbolize this sense of being a gateway.”Minoru YamasakiGateway
“So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.”Minoru YamasakiArchitecture
“No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.”Frank Lloyd WrightBuildings
“Images in the 20th century had a unique power where image became divorced from reality, and often more important than reality... Buildings were judged - at least by members of our own profession - more by the way they looked in magazines than by the satisfaction people felt when using them.”Christopher AlexanderBuildings
“My properties are very good income-producing buildings, so I will have a very good stream of profit even if I can't sell.”Harry TriguboffBuildings