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Tadao Ando

Tadao Ando

Japanese Architect

Born: Sep 13, 1941

Architecture Culture People Space World You

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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process. Tadao Ando

Art Creative Creative Process Thinking Hand Process Extension

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. Tadao Ando

Man Experience Architecture Building Architectural Through Since Come Concepts Although Am Materials Been Methods Western Japanese Based Actual Designs

In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside. Tadao Ando

God Try Church Building Religious Inside Object Attempt Renaissance Make Always Material Concrete Been West Celebration Stone Whether Eternal Eternally Meant Brick Chosen Medieval Preserve

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

You People Nothingness Give Achieved Ponder

I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future. Tadao Ando

Future People Architecture Inspire Own Resources Would Like Move Use

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 between those two different worlds. Tadao Ando

You Technology Creativity Worlds Those Kind Able Computer Between Another Offers Move Different Cannot Ignore Different Worlds Bring Two Need

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

You Change Architecture Will Become Speed Makes Wonder

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. Tadao Ando

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. Tadao Ando

People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect. Tadao Ando

People Word Beauty Tend Between Because Overlap Intellect Intellectual Use

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

Architecture Structures Wooden Japanese Regular Regular Basis Based Basis Need

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

Good Culture World Only Good Thing Over Thing

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. Tadao Ando

Hope Courage World Leader Before Gone Others Spirit Lead Also Go Cultural America Frontier Where Places Use Show Need

In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe. Tadao Ando

Culture Old Preserving Buildings Than Japan Less Europe

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