All Quotes by Tadao Ando
“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.”
“There is a role and function for beauty in our time.”
“You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.”
“Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.”
“I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.”
“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.”
“The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of 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.”
“The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.”
“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.”
“All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.”
“My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.”
“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.”
“I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.”
“Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.”
“Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.”
“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.”
“All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.”
“All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space.”
“Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from Japanese architectural concepts, although they're based on Western methods and materials.”
“Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.”
“I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.”
“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.”
“I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world.”