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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
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
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
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. -- Gustav Stickley
Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis. -- Tadao Ando
Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe. -- Minoru Yamasaki
Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest. -- Stephen Gardiner
I first decided architecture was for me when I saw Le Corbusier's designs in a Japanese magazine in the 1930s. -- Kenzo Tange
Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture. -- Tadao Ando
I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play. -- Philip Warren Anderson
Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture. -- Tadao Ando

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