Tadao Ando Quotes
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Architect Quotes
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Tadao Ando QuotesWhen 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.
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.
People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.
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.
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 hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before.
At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage.
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