"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

#Thinking Quotes #Light Quotes #Important Quotes

“Rhyme written in graffiti xeroxed on blueprints, students influenced are now a nuisance.”
“I don't travel anywhere without the PS3 and XBox. There's nothing better to do on long bus trips while on tour.”
“The presidency is not an office job.”

Source : Financial Times Interview, October 04, 2007.
“By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful German officials who have now been imprisoned only because they carried out their duties.”
“Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate.”
“My day-to-day wardrobe, I do mix it up. I'll wear something from Target along with something by YSL. It's about finding the right items that make you happy.”
“I think Brits probably feel that Americans are more like us than vice-versa, if that makes sense. Because we get everything American over here in Britain, but yet there are things which are staunchly English that you guys don't have.”
“There isn't anything anybody wants that is for any other reason than that they think they would feel better in having it.”

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