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Quotes by Architect
"First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture."
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"There aren't many American directors here trying to direct a Japanese yakuza film. When you combine that with the fact that I don't speak much Japanese and this was an independent film I was financing myself - people were curious about what I was doing."
8
"We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist."
8
"Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances."
8
"It is through accomplishment that man makes his contribution and contribution is life's greatest reward."
8
"There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea."
8
"We regard those other cultures, such as that of India, where many people live and believe and behave much as they did 1,000 or 2,000 years ago, as undeveloped."
8
"Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual."
8
"We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures."
8
"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."
8
"Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins."
8
"My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness."
8
"As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased."
8
"The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization."
8
"I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect."
8
"I would rather not tell you here things which every German has at heart."
8
"There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons."
8
"Washington is the only city in the world where you can go to a black-tie dinner and there at the foot of the table is a television set up to catch a press conference."
8
"I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own."
8
"Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity."
7
"Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union."
7
"The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment."
7
"We are creating a unique experience. It's starts with how you see the building from a distance."
7
"If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger."
7
"German and English firms operate internationally, while French firms do not. The only place where they all have work is in China. Anybody can sell himself in China!"
7
"Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground."
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