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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

#about #approach #body #building #buildings

I was raised to face any challenge. ↗

— Louis Zamperini

#world-war-ii

All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#architect #architectural #architecture #attachment #builder

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

Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#books #buildings #design #europe #full

This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music. ↗

— Victoria de los Angeles

#each #easy #geoffrey #him #i

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

People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#because #between #intellect #intellectual #overlap

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

#convenience #create #culture #gaining #i

When I do fall in love, I'll go to the ends of the earth for that person. I'd lay down on a carpet of nails for the person I love. ↗

— Peter Andre

#down #earth #ends #fall #go