Minoru Yamasaki Architect Quotations

The interesting thing about Oberlin College as it differs from other more urban schools or universities is that it is a walking campus.

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

So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.

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.

We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.

But I don't see why we have to take a central hall, for instance, and use in it a sculpture or painting. I think it detracts, somehow.

The view outside was much more important than the exhibits.

So I test all the buildings that I do by asking myself whether this building was possible, could have been built 50 years ago or a hundred years ago.

However, India is a democracy and they deeply believe in democracy and we feel that it would not be good to overwhelm them with propaganda.