Minoru Yamasaki Quotes

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

There's a consistency in my work that pops up independent of the limitations of the technology.

Architecture is art, nothing else.

To me, architecture is an art, naturally, and it isn't architecture unless it's alive. Alive is what art is. If it's not alive, it's dead, and it's not art.

When I started my own practice, I was criticized, not because I was doing product design but because, like Le Corbusier, I was insisting on paintings in all of my buildings. I would paint wall murals in the houses that I designed, just as he did in the '20s and '30s.

Architects think that beauty is a crime.

Ultimately, the artistic part of architecture has always interested me.

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. The size of the project means little in art, beyond the money matter. It is the quality of the character that really counts.

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.

I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age.

If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.

There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.

Building design isn't trendy.

I wanted a real profession. And I'd always been interested in architecture and in design and in, really, what makes things work. And understanding what's kind of behind the walls and why things stand up and some things don't.

I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.

Architecture is the beginning of something because it's - if you're not involved in first principles, if you're not involved in the absolute, the beginning of that generative process, it's cake decoration.

But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral, for instance, that we like.

The most difficult part of making movies is to keep making them. Maybe, you could make the biggest hit in the world, but then the big problem is what to do next and how to maintain devoted to a certain instinct that I have about films.

The building's identity resided in the ornament.

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.

The size thing is not some gimmick or attention-getting trick but a genuine undercurrent of the work. Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his buildings as sculptures. I like to imagine my sculptures as architectural.