Logo
Quote by Tadao Ando
Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great hi

Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture. – Tadao Ando

Other quotes by Tadao Ando

People tend not to use this word beauty because its not intellectual – but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect. – Tadao Ando

Category:
Beauty
Author
Tadao Ando
Read Quote

The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds. – Tadao Ando

Category:
Technology
Author
Tadao Ando
Read Quote

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. – Tadao Ando

Category:
Future
Author
Tadao Ando
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
architecture
category

I dont know why Ive always been so captivated by architecture. – Tim Gunn

Category:
architecture

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect. – John Ruskin

Category:
architecture

What is being called the UN gender architecture is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality. – Charlotte Bunch

Category:
architecture

There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons. – Edwin Lutyens

Category:
architecture

Random Quotes

A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Category:
Face, Faces

Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map. – Wayne Calloway

Category:
Concentration

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. – Thomas à Kempis, Imitation of Christ, c.1420

Category:
Wise Words

It was always my goal to up the ante on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this. – Michael Graves

Category:
design