Top 38 Quotes by Tadao Ando

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

When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together.

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.

All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space.

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.

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.

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

You always want to try to make something new, and, of course, America is the world leader in economics today.

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

If there is only one culture all over the world, that's not a good thing.