Quote by Tadao Ando
Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to

Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture. – Tadao Ando

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My hand is the extension of the thinking process – the creative process. – Tadao Ando

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

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architecture
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But now, more and more, its society is concerned with economy and finance. – Tadao Ando

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finance
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We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it. – John Ruskin

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Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture. – Rem Koolhaas

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architecture

Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became. – Louis Kahn

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architecture

I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them. – Maya Lin

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