Tadao Ando Quotes

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• I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.
• My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
• I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of…
• When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a…
• If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future,…
• When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together.
• In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo.
• In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
• Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.
• Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.
• I don't look so closely at women's fashion, but from the 20th century on, people have had the freedom to express themselves and their individualities,…
• All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult…
• I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need…
• I hope that America as a whole, and especially its architects, will become more seriously involved in producing a new architectural culture that would bring…
• In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object…
• Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see…
• Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from Japanese architectural concepts, although they're…
• When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I…
• You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then…
• I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing.

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