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Top 25 Minoru Yamasaki Quotes (2025 Update)

Minoru Yamasaki Quote: “The purpose of architecture is to create an atmosphere in which man can live, work, and enjoy.”

1. “The purpose of architecture is to create an atmosphere in which man can live, work, and enjoy.”

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Minoru Yamasaki Quote: “I didn’t want to lose the human scale.”

2. “I didn’t want to lose the human scale.”

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Minoru Yamasaki Quote: “If you have white walls, human beings look better in a room than if you have red walls.”

3. “If you have white walls, human beings look better in a room than if you have red walls.”

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Minoru Yamasaki Quote: “We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don’t go anywhere. They shouldn’t be restless.”

4. “We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don’t go anywhere. They shouldn’t be restless.”

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Minoru Yamasaki Quote: “In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building.”

5. “In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building.”

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Minoru Yamasaki Quote: “Because, if we understand how a building is to be produced and we find a way that it can be more simply produced, then obviously we are contributing to building better buildings more easily.”

6. “Because, if we understand how a building is to be produced and we find a way that it can be more simply produced, then obviously we are contributing to building better buildings more easily.”

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Minoru Yamasaki Quote: “And I think that the environment is one very strong way to counterbalance the chaotic nature of our life.”

7. “And I think that the environment is one very strong way to counterbalance the chaotic nature of our life.”

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Minoru Yamasaki Quote: “I feel this is very important for us to have serene buildings because our civilization is chaotic as it is, you see; our whole machine age has brought about a chaos that has to be somehow counterbalanced, I think.”

8. “I feel this is very important for us to have serene buildings because our civilization is chaotic as it is, you see; our whole machine age has brought about a chaos that has to be somehow counterbalanced, I think.”

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Minoru Yamasaki Quote: “Being the gateway to a large city, St. Louis, I had felt from the very beginning that somehow this building should symbolize this sense of being a gateway.”

9. “Being the gateway to a large city, St. Louis, I had felt from the very beginning that somehow this building should symbolize this sense of being a gateway.”

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Minoru Yamasaki Quote: “And sometimes I’m criticized. But I think that if those who criticize us will look at the reason why the shape is this, well then, I think that they would not object so strenuously.”

10. “And sometimes I’m criticized. But I think that if those who criticize us will look at the reason why the shape is this, well then, I think that they would not object so strenuously.”

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Minoru Yamasaki Quote: “And exciting buildings are fine periodically.”

11. “And exciting buildings are fine periodically.”

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Minoru Yamasaki Quote: “And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.”

12. “And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.”

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Minoru Yamasaki Quote: “If you look at the buildings, you’ll find that one part looks as if it was designed by one man, and you go around and look at another facade and it looks as if it was designed by another man, you see.”

13. “If you look at the buildings, you’ll find that one part looks as if it was designed by one man, and you go around and look at another facade and it looks as if it was designed by another man, you see.”

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Minoru Yamasaki Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

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Minoru Yamasaki Quote: “I believe that we must understand the economy of the situation.”

15. “I believe that we must understand the economy of the situation.”

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Minoru Yamasaki Quote: “In other words, I have no truck for anyone who goes out and does an eclectic building.”

16. “In other words, I have no truck for anyone who goes out and does an eclectic building.”

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Minoru Yamasaki Quote: “Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.”

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

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Minoru Yamasaki Quote: “I want to do very useful buildings and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology because I think that this is the only way that we will gain wonderful environment easily in the future.”

18. “I want to do very useful buildings and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology because I think that this is the only way that we will gain wonderful environment easily in the future.”

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Minoru Yamasaki Quote: “The Wayne Education Building was the first classroom building that we have done on the Wayne campus.”

19. “The Wayne Education Building was the first classroom building that we have done on the Wayne campus.”

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Minoru Yamasaki Quote: “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.”

20. “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.”

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Minoru Yamasaki Quote: “I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.”

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

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Minoru Yamasaki Quote: “In this tour around the world I was not interested in contemporary buildings because I had seen contemporary buildings actually until they came out of my ears in a sense.”

22. “In this tour around the world I was not interested in contemporary buildings because I had seen contemporary buildings actually until they came out of my ears in a sense.”

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Minoru Yamasaki Quote: “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.”

23. “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.”

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Minoru Yamasaki Quote: “I can’t do everything obviously although sometimes I know that all of us wish that we could.”

24. “I can’t do everything obviously although sometimes I know that all of us wish that we could.”

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Minoru Yamasaki Quote: “And I like the idea of change. Because I don’t see why we should hang a painting on the wall and then just not think of it anymore because it’s there like a piece of furniture.”

25. “And I like the idea of change. Because I don’t see why we should hang a painting on the wall and then just not think of it anymore because it’s there like a piece of furniture.”

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Minoru Yamasaki Quote: “And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.”

26. “And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.”

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Minoru Yamasaki Quote: “Let’s talk about the Gas Company because this is my favorite job.”

27. “Let’s talk about the Gas Company because this is my favorite job.”

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