Masa Takayama Quotes

I like building.

Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there.

What I learned from architectural drafting is that everything has to have a plan to work. You just can't wing it. I can't get all the materials I need for a house and just start building. Whether it's a career, family, life - you have to plan it out.

I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We're putting things together.

Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.

I am involved in the architecture of space.

You don't build a great castle just all at once.

Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process.

I've built two wooden houses near Vals. I built them for my wife. Those were private projects.

I love architecture.

You don't need a pack of wild horses to learn how to make a sandwich.

I work a little bit like a sculptor. When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not about forms. It's about space and material.

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.

We refuse to recognize problems of form, but only problems of building. Form is not the aim of our work, but only the result. Form, by itself, does not exist. Form as an aim is formalism; and that we reject.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is not an artist.

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

When I was handed a hammer, my first project was building a three-story tree house.

What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.

I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.

I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.

I think a construction project for me is like writing a novel. I can't do the project unless I can envision sort of the whole structure and see what the end result might be.

Woodworking requires a completely different kind of thinking and problem-solving ability than writing. With writing, you take a set of facts and ideas, and you reason your way forward to a story that pulls them together. With woodworking, you start with an end product in mind, and reason your way backward to the raw wood.

I just wondered how things were put together.

Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.