Architecture Quote by Tadao Ando

Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside…

— Tadao Ando

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…

— Minoru Yamasaki

The Japanese garden is a very important tool in Japanese architectural design because, not only is a garden traditionally included in any house design,…

— E. J. W. Barber

It is impossible to remain indifferent to Japanese culture. It is a different civilisation where all you have learnt must be forgotten. It is…

— Alain Ducasse

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

— Tadao Ando

If you go to Tokyo, I think it becomes very obvious that there's this almost seamless mixture of popular culture and Japanese traditional culture.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Japan is very cosmopolitan - it values its origins, but a world view hovers above this narrow perspective. The interest of the Japanese in…

— F. Sionil Jose

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

— Tadao Ando

I travel a lot. Japanese culture is very ancient and very strong. That's why most people who commission work from Japanese architects expect them…

— Shigeru Ban

The Japanese people have a strong connection with nature and the ocean and a huge respect for them.

— Daniel Berehulak

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…

— Tadao Ando

Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.

— Minoru Yamasaki