Quotation by

Tadao Ando

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.

Tadao Ando

Relationship

Understanding this quote AI Analysis

Tadao Ando is saying that traditional Japanese buildings are designed to reflect how Japanese culture values and connects deeply with the natural world. This close and balanced interaction between living spaces and nature is something distinctively found in Japan.

More by this author

All quotes by Tadao Ando →

More quotes about Relationship

See all →

You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like…

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.