Tadao Ando

But in Japan, there's nothing like that, since the temple is made of wood. The divine spirit inside the building is eternal, so the enclosure doesn't have to be. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#divine #eternal #inside #japan #like

But now, more and more, its society is concerned with economy and finance. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#economy #finance #more #more and more #now

I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#around #artistic #going #happening #i

I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#america #before #courage #cultural #frontier

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

#determine #future #i #i am #i think

If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#achieved #give #nothingness #people #ponder

In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#history #italy #many #rome #significant

In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#culture #europe #japan #less #old

Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#based #basis #japanese #japanese architecture #need

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

#based #between #conditions #connection #created