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

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Tadao Ando
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: September 13
Architect
Boxer
Master Builder
University Teacher
Tadao Andō
Andō Tadao
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People
Ponder
Pondering
Nothingness
Achieved
Architecture

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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.
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I don't believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind
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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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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.
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You always want to try to make something new, and, of course, America is the world leader in economics today.
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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.
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In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo.
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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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At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage.
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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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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
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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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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.
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If there is only one culture all over the world, that's not a good thing.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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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.
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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.
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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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All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space.
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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.
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