70 Quotes by Tadao Andō

I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world.

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

Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city.

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

Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from Japanese architectural concepts, although they're based on Western methods and materials.

If there is only one culture all over the world, that's not a good thing.

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.

Working in Tokyo has convinced me that, contrary to what people think, it is actually one of the world's most beautiful cities.

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