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Architecture People

I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.

- Tadao Ando

Other quotes by Tadao Ando

God

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.

- Tadao Ando

Architecture Will

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

- Tadao Ando

Thinking

My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

- Tadao Ando

Beauty People

People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.

- Tadao Ando

Knowledge Thinking

You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.

- Tadao Ando

Women Freedom Men People

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.

- Tadao Ando

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