Kengo Kuma famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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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.
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If we could combine Starbucks spirit with the spirit of the artisan, we knew we could achieve something special.
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The criteria for architecture after the tsunami is humbleness
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EMBRACING THE EXISTING Japanese perspective on urban history and context
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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.
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If we could combine Starbucks' spirit with the spirit of the artisan, we knew we could achieve something special.
-- Kengo Kuma
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A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.
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Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.
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There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.
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With its leaves so rich and heavy with elation and its crimson face made brighter with visions of divinity the shadow of a certain rose looks just like an angel eating light.
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When the spirit shines, even foggy skies make pleasant light.
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I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
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Beginning with the first bite, and for every bite after, that try to chew ten times.
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Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.
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