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Tadao Ando (Architect)

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.

— Tadao Ando nature

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 knowledge

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 art

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 people

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

— Tadao Ando people

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

— Tadao Ando people

There is a role and function for beauty in our time.

— Tadao Ando time

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 wit

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

— Tadao Ando thinking

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

— Tadao Ando beautiful

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

— Tadao Ando people

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 church

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

— Tadao Ando change

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

— Tadao Ando history

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 city

I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.

— Tadao Ando future

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

— Tadao Ando need

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 people

You always want to try to make something new, and, of course, America is the world leader in economics today.

— Tadao Ando world

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 sin

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 spiritual

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 experience

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 history

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.

— Tadao Ando spirit

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 men

But in Japan, theres nothing like that, since the temple is made of wood. The divine spirit inside the building is eternal, so the enclosure doesnt have to be.

— Tadao Ando sin

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