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I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.
Tadao Ando
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Tadao Ando
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: September 13
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I think that capitalism has just gone too far. And it is actually not limited to the United States. The excesses of capitalism is making us suffer all over the world right now.
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My objective is to design a space that nobody else can come up with while using the material that anyone can use.
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If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
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