Quotes by Tadao Ando

Tadao Ando

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.

Architecture

Attachment

Design

I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what’s going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature.

Artistic

Literature

Needs

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

Believe

Littles

People

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.

Cities

Mean

Wall

I don’t look so closely at women’s fashion, but from the 20th century on, people have had the freedom to express themselves and their individualities, and fashion is one of the most fundamental ways in which they do this, men and women are equally able to express themselves.

Fashion

Men

People

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.

America

Courage

Leader

I take the museum space also as sacred in a sense.

Museums

Sacred

Space

I think everyone needs a goal. And what kind of goal will be important. And for that we have to study and we have to be intelligent.

Goal

Intelligent

Thinking

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.

Moving

Museums

Space

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.

Dream

People

Space

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America

Architecture

Art

Artistic

Attachment

Beautiful

Believe

Book

Cities

Connections

Courage

Creativity

Culture

Degrees

Design

Details

Dream

Fashion

Giving

Goal

Good Things

Intelligent

Leader

Levels

Life

Literature

Littles

Mean

Men

Moving

Museums

Needs

People

Philosophy

Positive

Rome

Sacred

Self

Significant

Space

Speed

Spiritual

Structure

Technology

Thinking

Travel

Use

Wall

Wonder

World

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Quotes by Tadao Ando

Tadao Ando

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.

I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what’s going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature.

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

I don’t look so closely at women’s fashion, but from the 20th century on, people have had the freedom to express themselves and their individualities, and fashion is one of the most fundamental ways in which they do this, men and women are equally able to express themselves.

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.

I take the museum space also as sacred in a sense.

I think everyone needs a goal. And what kind of goal will be important. And for that we have to study and we have to be intelligent.

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.

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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