Quote by Tadao Ando
Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures

Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis. – Tadao Ando

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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. – Tadao Ando

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All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although its difficult to quantify the attachment. – Tadao Ando

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You cant really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you. – Tadao Ando

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I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach? – Philip Johnson

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For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind. – James Rouse

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Ive always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Some look better than the new ones. – Joe Elliott

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To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it. – Daniel Libeskind

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