“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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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.
Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.
We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.
Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.