Japanese Architecture Quotes:

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.

- Tadao Ando

topic: Unique, Japan, Looks, Japanese Architecture, Modern Architecture

You could say that my aim is ‘to recover the place’. The place is a result of nature and time; this is the most important aspect. I think my architecture is some kind of frame of nature. With it, we can experience nature more deeply and more intimately. Transparency is a characteristic of Japanese architecture; I try to use light and natural materials to get a new kind of transparency.

- Kengo Kuma

topic: Japanese Architecture

Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.

- Tadao Ando

topic: Needs, Architecture, Structure, Japanese Architecture

Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from Japanese architectural concepts, although they're based on Western methods and materials.

- Tadao Ando

topic: Men, Design, Architecture, Japanese Architecture

There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea.

- Gustav Stickley

topic: Ideas, House, Log Cabins, Japanese Architecture, Rustic

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

topic: Thinking, Architecture, Influence, Japanese Architecture

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

- Minoru Yamasaki

topic: Country, Europe, Architecture, Japanese Architecture

After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings.

- Harry Seidler

topic: War, Technology, Earthquakes, Japanese Architecture, Advanced Technology