America

architecture

hand

ruin

youth

nationality

Japanese

occupation / innovator as

architect

innovator in the field of

Japanese architecture

boxer

university teacher

scientific organization

Royal Academy of Arts

Académie d'architecture

is endowed with a frontier spirit and is uniquely capable to be a cultural leader of the world, to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before.

I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before.

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

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. Tadao Ando

is interesting when it has a double character: as simple as possible but, at the same time as complex as possible.

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 as possible

is the extension of the thinking process the creative process.

My hand is the extension of the thinking process the creative process. Tadao Ando

is a thing where what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing.

I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing.

is maintained as long as one has an objective in one's mind.

As long as you have an objective in your mind you are young.

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