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Tadao Ando

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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