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Building Quotes by Tadao Ando
- In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
- 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…
- The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what…
- But in Japan, there's nothing like that, since the temple is made of wood. The divine spirit inside the building is eternal, so the enclosure…
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