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Tadao Ando

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

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Akiroq Brost

"We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward."

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"It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect."

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Akiroq Brost

"In architecture the pride of man his triumph over gravitation his will to power assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms."

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"Modern architecture predominately specializes in designing what are essentially dimly lit caves."

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"The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning."

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"All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks."

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"Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building."

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"No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple."

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"If you put enough closets together, you have enough space for a room. If you put enough rooms together, you have enough room for a house. If you put enough houses together, you have space for a town, then a city, then a nation, then a world."

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"The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture."

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Tadao Ando
"The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds."

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

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Tadao Ando
"The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have."

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

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

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Tadao Ando
"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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Tadao Ando
"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."

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Tadao Ando
"I don't look so closely at women's fashion, but from the 20th century on, people have had the freedom to express themselves and their individualities, and fashion is one of the most fundamental ways in which they do this, men and women are equally able to express themselves."

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

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Tadao Ando
"At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage."

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