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. – Tadao Ando
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
I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future. – Tadao Ando
I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture. – Tadao Ando
I had a really wonderful upbringing. We were a tight family. It was wonderful to grow up with so many siblings. We were all just a year or two apart, and we were always so supportive of each other. I learned everything from my older brother and sister and taught it to my younger sisters. – Joaquin Phoenix
It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits. – Lewis Thomas