Logo
Quote by Tadao Ando
Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these condit

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

Other quotes by Tadao Ando

When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space. – Tadao Ando

Category:
design
Author
Tadao Ando
Read Quote

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. – Tadao Ando

Category:
Knowledge
Author
Tadao Ando
Read Quote

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

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

First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture. – Gustav Stickley

Category:
architecture

Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved. – Richard Meier

Category:
architecture

In art or architecture your project is only done when you say its done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures. – Maya Lin

Category:
architecture

A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature. – Guillaume Apollinaire

Category:
architecture

Random Quotes

Fiction is such a world of freedom, its wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly. – Alice Walker

Category:
Freedom

Tis very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Category:
Appearance

The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work. – W. Edwards Deming

Category:
Procrastination

Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible. – Cherie Carter-Scott

Category:
Visualization