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.
From Tadao Ando
When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.
When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together.
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.
I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.
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.
People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
Working in Tokyo has convinced me that, contrary to what people think, it is actually one of the world's most beautiful cities.
In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
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