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No matter how advanced society becomes, institutionally or technologically, a house in which nature can be sensed represents for me the ideal environment in which to live. From a functional viewpoint, the courtyard of the Rowhouse in Sumiyoshi forces the inhabitant to endure the occasional hardships. At the same time, however, the open courtyard is capable of becoming the house's vital organ, introducing the everyday life and assimilating precious stimuli such as changes in nature.

Tadao Ando's Popular Quotes

My objective is to design a space that nobody else can come up with while using the material that anyone can use.

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If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of …

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We borrow from nature the space upon which we build.

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You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.

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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 al…

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I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.

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In all my works, light is an important controlling factor.

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I think architecture becomes interesting when it has a double character, that is, when it is as simple as possible but, at the same time as complex a…

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

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