Tadao Ando Quotes

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• I don't believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind

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  Believe, Wind, Too Much

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• We borrow from nature the space upon which we build.

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  Space

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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 along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.

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  Thinking, Land, Use

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• I think architecture becomes interesting when it has a double character, that is, when it is as simple as possible but, at the same time as complex as possible

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  Character, Simple, Thinking

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• In all my works, light is an important controlling factor.

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  Light, Important, Factors

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• My objective is to design a space that nobody else can come up with while using the material that anyone can use.

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  Space, Design, Use

  "Interview: Architect Tadao Ando on the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth". Interview with Peter Simek, www.dmagazine.com. October 23, 2012.

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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 kind of structure I seek to create.

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  Dream, Space, People

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

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  People, Giving, Architecture

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

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  Believe, People, Littles

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• As long as you have an objective in your mind you are young.

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  Long, Mind, Young

  "Interview: Architect Tadao Ando on the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth". Interview with Peter Simek, www.dmagazine.com. October 23, 2012.

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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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  Beauty, Beautiful, Beauty Is Skin Deep

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• I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing.

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  Badass, Bad Ass, Design

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• In Architecture there is a part that is the result of Logical Reasoning and a part that is created through the Senses. There is always a point where they Clash. I don't think Architecture can be created without that Collision.

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  Thinking, Logical Reasoning, Architecture

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• No matter how advanced society becomes, institutionally or technologically, a house in which nature can be sensed represents for me the ideal environment in which to live. From a functional viewpoint, the courtyard of the Rowhouse in Sumiyoshi forces the inhabitant to endure the occasional hardships. At the same time, however, the open courtyard is capable of becoming the house's vital organ, introducing the everyday life and assimilating precious stimuli such as changes in nature.

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  House, Everyday, Hardship

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• I want to create a space that moves people. It doesn't matter if it is a house, or a museum, or whatever. So, it is somebody sitting on that lawn, just going around and around and feeling really happy. That is something that I'm striving for.

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  Moving, Space, Museums

  "Interview: Architect Tadao Ando on the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth". Interview with Peter Simek, www.dmagazine.com. October 23, 2012.

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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 will approach the building and experience that space.

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  Thinking, Space, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

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  Roles, Function, Our Time

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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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  Unique, Japan, Culture

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• It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something.

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  Life, Positive, Dream

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

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  Art, Creativity, Thinking

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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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  Moving, People, Inspire

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• I create enclosed spaces mainly by means of thick concrete walls. The primary reason is to create a place for the individual, a zone for oneself within society. When the external factors of a city's environment require the wall to be without openings, the interior must be especially full and satisfying.

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  Wall, Mean, Cities

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• All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space.

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  Believe, Space, Architecture

  "Tadao Ando Talk Asia Interview". www.cnn.com. April 12, 2007.

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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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  Moving, Past, Thinking

  "Talk Asia" with Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. April 12, 2007.

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• 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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  Two, Use, Spirit

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