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

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

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

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

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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... →

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But in Japan, there's nothing like that, since the temple is made of wood. The divine spirit inside the building is eternal, so the enclosure... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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.

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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... →

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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... →

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If there is only one culture all over the world, that's not a good thing.

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

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