Tadao Ando

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

— Tadao Ando

#both #city #filthy #get #london

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

The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#become #change #makes #speed #will

Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#between #cannot #exist #fully #i

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

— Tadao Ando

#beautiful #cities #contrary #convinced #me

You always want to try to make something new, and, of course, America is the world leader in economics today. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#america #course #economics #leader #make

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

— Tadao Ando

#about #beautiful #image #place #really