Famous Quotes

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

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

• "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."

• "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."

• "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."