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38 quotes by Tadao Ando

Tadao Ando (安藤 忠雄, Andō Tadao?, born September 13, 1941) is a Japanese self-taught architect whose approach to architecture and landscape was categorized by architectural historian Francesco Dal Co as "critical regionalism".
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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... →

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

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

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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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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... →

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

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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... →

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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... →

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In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal... →

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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.

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

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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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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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