Tadao Ando Quotes About Architecture

Quotes about: Architecture

• 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

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

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  Art, Creativity, Thinking

• 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

• 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

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

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  Believe, People, Littles

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

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  Architecture, Wonder, Speed

• 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

• 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

• 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.

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  Attachment, Design, Architecture

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

• 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.

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  Men, Design, Architecture

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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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.

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  Degrees, Connections, Architecture

• Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.

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  Needs, Architecture, Structure

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

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  People, Giving, Architecture

• 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.

• 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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  Spiritual, Space, Needs

• 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.

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  Philosophy, Book, Thinking

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

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