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
My hand is the extension of the thinking process – the creative process. – Tadao Ando
Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis. – Tadao Ando
But now, more and more, its society is concerned with economy and finance. – Tadao Ando
Ralph Keyes calls quotation collectors “quotographers,” the men and women who gather catchwords, watchwords, war words, winged words, maxims, mottos, sayings, and quips into books of a thousand pages. Through the centuries quotation collectors have saved quotations that would otherwise be lost. – Willis Goth Regier, Quotology, 2010