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

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

  • When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.

  • I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.

  • 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.