Quotes by Tadao Ando

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

Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.

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.

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

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