Zitat des Tages von Tadao Ando:
If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
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.
I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before.
People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
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.
If there is only one culture all over the world, that's not a good thing.
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.
The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.
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.
Working in Tokyo has convinced me that, contrary to what people think, it is actually one of the world's most beautiful cities.
The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.
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.
But in Japan, there's nothing like that, since the temple is made of wood. The divine spirit inside the building is eternal, so the enclosure doesn't have to be.
You always want to try to make something new, and, of course, America is the world leader in economics today.
I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.
My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.
At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage.
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.
All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space.
I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world.
Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.
In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo.
