Tadao Ando Quotes

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.
Tadao Ando

Spiritual, Lost, Culture

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

Change, Become, Makes

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 think about how people will approach the building and experience that space.
Tadao Ando

Design, Experience, Together

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.
Tadao Ando

Two, Cannot, Between

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

You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.
Tadao Ando

Knowledge, Thinking, Cannot

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Biography

Nationality: Japanese

Type: Architect

Born: September 13, 1941

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