Famous Quotes

"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 Yamasaki on Architecture

More quotes about Architecture

• "We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us."

  Winston Churchill on Architecture

• "Whatever good things we build end up building us."

  Jim Rohn on Architecture

• "I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build."

  Ayn Rand on Architecture

• "A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom."

  Ayn Rand on Architecture

• "Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age."

  Frank Lloyd Wright on Architecture

More quotes by Minoru Yamasaki

• "We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless."

• "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."

• "Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe."

• "The Wayne Education Building was the first classroom building that we have done on the Wayne campus."

• "I want to do very useful buildings and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology because I think that this is the only way that we will gain wonderful environment easily in the future."