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“I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature.” quote by Tadao Ando — Download Open image

“I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature.”

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My objective is to design a space that nobody else can come up with while using the material that anyone can use.

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In Architecture there is a part that is the result of Logical Reasoning and a part that is created through the Senses. There is…

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Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.

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Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use…

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Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.

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The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to…

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No matter how advanced society becomes, institutionally or technologically, a house in which nature can be sensed represents for me the ideal environment in which to live. From a functional viewpoint, the courtyard of the Rowhouse in Sumiyoshi forces the inhabitant to endure the occasional hardships. At the same time, however, the open courtyard is capable of becoming the house's…

In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo.

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I think architecture becomes interesting when it has a double character, that is, when it is as simple as possible but, at the same…

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The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.

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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…

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I hope that America as a whole, and especially its architects, will become more seriously involved in producing a new architectural culture that would…

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True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

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Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and…

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“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.”

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I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your…

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The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

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That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

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“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and…

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The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

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During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

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In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are…

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