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Tadao Ando
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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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Tadao Ando
Topic(s):
Architecture
"You can’t really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you."
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Tadao Ando
Topic(s):
Beauty
"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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Tadao Ando
Topic(s):
Architecture
"I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before."
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Tadao Ando
Topic(s):
Courage
"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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Tadao Ando
Topic(s):
Architecture
"I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future."
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Tadao Ando
Topic(s):
Architecture
"If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness."
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Tadao Ando
Topic(s):
Architecture
"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."
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Tadao Ando
Topic(s):
Design
"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."
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Tadao Ando
Topic(s):
Freedom
"People tend not to use this word beauty because it’s not intellectual – but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect."
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Tadao Ando
Topic(s):
Beauty
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