Tadao Ando Quotes

I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.
Tadao Ando

Architecture, Live, Directed

My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
Tadao Ando

Art, Thinking, Creative

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.
Tadao Ando

Nature, Live, Unique

At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage.
Tadao Ando

Time, Courage, Same

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, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.
Tadao Ando

Future, Before, Dream

If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
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Architecture, Give, Achieved

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.
Tadao Ando

Music, Understand, Around

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 these things.
Tadao Ando

Future, Past, Thinking

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

Future, Move, Inspire

There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
Tadao Ando

Beauty, Time, Role

When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together.
Tadao Ando

Work, Brain, Together

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, and fashion is one of the most fundamental ways in which they do this, men and women are equally able to express themselves.
Tadao Ando

Women, Men, Freedom

The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.
Tadao Ando

Technology, Different, Ignore

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 kind of detailing I want the building to have.
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Design, Within, Level

But now, more and more, its society is concerned with economy and finance.
Tadao Ando

Society, Finance, Economy

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

History, Rome, Italy

In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
Tadao Ando

Old, Less, Culture

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

Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city.
Tadao Ando

After, Proud, Both

People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
Tadao Ando

Beauty, Between, Word

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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Spiritual, Lost, Culture

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

Change, Become, Makes

Working in Tokyo has convinced me that, contrary to what people think, it is actually one of the world's most beautiful cities.
Tadao Ando

Beautiful, Working, Actually

You always want to try to make something new, and, of course, America is the world leader in economics today.
Tadao Ando

Today, America, Try

You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.
Tadao Ando

Beauty, Beautiful, Place

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Biography

Nationality: Japanese

Type: Architect

Born: September 13, 1941

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