You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.
Quote by Tadao Ando
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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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Tadao Ando Quotes
- 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.
- People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- I hope that America as a whole, and especially its architects, will become more seriously involved in producing a new architectural culture that would bring the nation to the apex - where it has stood before - and lead the world.
- I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.
- I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.
- Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.
- But now, more and more, its society is concerned with economy and finance.
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