Tadao Ando Nature Quotes

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. ~ Tadao Ando

As long as you have an objective in your mind you are young. ~ Tadao Ando

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. ~ Tadao Ando

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. ~ Tadao Ando

Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city. ~ Tadao Ando

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

In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo. ~ Tadao Ando

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. ~ Tadao Ando

I want each of you to go through life making the most of your individuality. Like it or not, you will go out into the real world and be treated as an adult. Adults show each other no mercy. If you fail to cultivate within yourself a fight-back mentality, society will end up controlling you. ~ Tadao Ando

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

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. ~ Tadao Ando

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

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

Working in Tokyo has convinced me that, contrary to what people think, it is actually one of the world's most beautiful cities. ~ Tadao Ando

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. ~ Tadao Ando

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

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 ~ Tadao Ando

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. ~ Tadao Ando

In all my works, light is an important controlling factor. ~ Tadao Ando

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

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

But now, more and more, its society is concerned with economy and finance. ~ Tadao Ando

I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world. ~ Tadao Ando

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

Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture. ~ Tadao Ando

You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you. ~ Tadao Ando

But in Japan, there's nothing like that, since the temple is made of wood. The divine spirit inside the building is eternal, so the enclosure doesn't have to be. ~ Tadao Ando

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

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

When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together. ~ 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

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. ~ Tadao Ando

At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage. ~ Tadao Ando

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

There are self-made millionaires - their aspiration is first to make money. But the once that goal is achieved, they have to look for something and sometimes they become patrons of art or museums. And that is how the world should go. ~ Tadao Ando

Because of the indefinite nature of the human mind, wherever it is lost in ignorance man makes himself the measure of all things. ~ Giambattista Vico

Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by no means the greatest part. ~ Edmund Burke

He that knoweth not what the world is, knoweth not where he himself is. And he that knoweth not what the world was made for, cannot possibly know either what are the qualities, or what is the nature of the world. ~ Marcus Aurelius

Spinoza says that if a stone which has been projected through the air, had consciousness, it would believe that it was moving of its own free will. I add this only, that the stone would be right. The impulse given it is for the stone what the motive is for me, and what in the case of the stone appears as cohesion, gravitation, rigidity, is in its inner nature the same as that which I recognise in myself as will, and what the stone also, if knowledge were given to it, would recognise as will. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

The absolute easiest thing to do is spend time, as often as one can, in tranquil or majestic nature. Look at butterflies. Walk barefoot in the sand. Put your feet in a clean, bubbling stream. Walk in a city park and feed the pigeons. Anything. Get out and take a walk. ~ Gary K. Smith

True observers of nature, although they may think differently, will still agree that everything that is, everything that is observable as a phenomenon, can only exhibit itself in one of two ways. It is either a primal polarity that is able to unify, or it is a primal unity that is able to divide. The operation of nature consists of splitting the united or uniting the divided; this is the eternal movement of systole and diastole of the heartbeat, the inhalation and exhalation of the world in which we live, act, and exist. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe