Scott Foley 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.

I'm very classic and structural. I love clean lines and interesting, modern details. But I'm all about being streamlined - less is more.

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.

I'm not an abstractionist completely.

My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place.

I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration.

A formally harmonious product needs no decoration; it should be elevated through pure form.

As a child, my father's architecture seemed to me to be industrial in a way. It seemed harsh and kind of chilly; I didn't respond to it.

I love '70s organic architecture. I am very influenced by the time when I grew up.

One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.

I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it.

I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.

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.

Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive S curve. This made it harder to communicate emotions through design.

To me, the fashion and architecture I like are very closely linked. Both should be clean and simple and without embellishment.

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

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.

I have no requirements for a style of architecture.

Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.

In northern architecture - the cathedrals of Europe and all the little churches - the details, the carving of stone, become necessary because the light is not there to help you very much. You have to enrich surfaces. The desert reduces form to its simplest nature. There is no need for gargoyles or flying buttresses in the desert.

Like in great painting and architecture, in couture, to make clothes you must eliminate, eliminate, eliminate to obtain the true sense of a line. You see, the more you add, the more you load on, the more it's mad. You must try to have just the silhouette, which is an intelligence in clothes.

I've always been inspired by Japanese style.

People say I am a classic designer. I don't try to be classic, but I do try to be simple and elegant.

I love wearing very simple colours.

Great architecture of the past was always clear. SFMOMA is still a simple building to understand.