Best quotes by Tadao Ando on Architecture

Checkout quotes by Tadao Ando on Architecture

• ‟ I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.

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• ‟ 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 harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.

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• ‟ 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 based on Western methods and materials.

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• ‟ I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.

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

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• ‟ 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 to quantify the attachment.

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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 architecture to reconcile the two.

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• ‟ Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.

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

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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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• ‟ I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world.

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• ‟ All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space.

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