Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less.
Alvar Aalto
We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems.
We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.
Alvar Aalto
And, of course, supernatural elements just make a story more interesting.
John Foster
As you can probably tell, I like films and directors that bring a totally unique style to filming action.
John Foster
I didn't really discover yakuza films until about five or six years ago.
John Foster
I had lived in Fukuoka during the mid 1990s, and I was a volunteer with the Fukuoka Asian Film Festival.
John Foster
Since my Japanese isn't very good, I had to have an interpreter to communicate with most of the crew.
The awesomeness of God is that even in the works of the Beach Boys, Beatles, etc., the beauty of the music is a mere reflection of what God does everyday. He creates music of all kinds and moods.
John Foster
There aren't many American directors here trying to direct a Japanese yakuza film. When you combine that with the fact that I don't speak much Japanese and this was an independent film I was financing myself - people were curious about what I was doing.
John Foster
To me, Shakespeare uses the supernatural elements to reveal his character's inner desires and fears.
John Foster
"to build means to ascertain the relationship between things and try to illuminate them," (Livio Vacchini)
Less is more (Mies Van de Rohe)
Walter Gropius
German Architect Quotes
Date of Birth:May 18, 1883
Date of Death:
July 5, 1969
Nationality:
German
Architecture begins where engineering ends.
If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where
Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.
Walter Gropius
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.
Walter Gropius
Le Corbusier
Date of Birth:
October 6, 1887
Date of Death:
August 27, 1965
Nationality:
Swiss
A house is a machine for living in.
A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.
Le Corbusier
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
Le Corbusier
I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.
Le Corbusier
Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
Le Corbusier
The home should be the treasure chest of living.
Le Corbusier
To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.
Le Corbusier
