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Tadao Ando

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

Architecture

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Tadao Ando is saying that when buildings focus too much on making life easier, they often lose the deeper, peaceful feeling that spiritual places have. He wanted to design buildings that combine the calm, thoughtful qualities of Japanese spirituality with the practical and modern styles of Western architecture.

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