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

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Tadao Ando
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: September 13
Architect
Boxer
Master Builder
University Teacher
Tadao Andō
Andō Tadao
Architecture
Speed
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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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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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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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If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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Working in Tokyo has convinced me that, contrary to what people think, it is actually one of the world's most beautiful cities.
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But now, more and more, its society is concerned with economy and finance.
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When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together.
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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 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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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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In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo.
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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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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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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 believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.
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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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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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I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.
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