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People are not killed by earthquakes alone, but by collapsed buildings.
Shigeru Ban / Architect
Building
Earthquakes
People
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Everyone used to want to be star architects. That's no longer the case.
Shigeru Ban / Architect
Architecture
Stars
Want
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I'm not inventing anything new, I'm just using existing material differently.
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Inventing
Materials
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An architect does not need to spend his whole career making monuments for rich people.
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Careers
Doe
People
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I believe that the material doesn’t need to be strong to be used to build a strong structure. The strength of the structure has nothing to do with the strength of the material.
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Believe
Needs
Strong
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Architecture is not about designing somehting from a free, fanciful idea. It is about discovering and establishing one's own principle, some kind of regularity - finding an individual formula to apply to one's buildings.
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Design
Ideas
Principles
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I did a lot of tests, and I finalized my research. Paper has become a part of my visual vocabulary. You know, paper is an industrial material. You can do almost anything with it. Wood, for example, is much more difficult to adapt to different needs.
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Different
Difficult
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I travel a lot. Japanese culture is very ancient and very strong. That's why most people who commission work from Japanese architects expect them to create works that have an element of exoticism, the kind typical of Japanese culture. I don't do that.
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Culture
People
Strong
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The most important thing, in order to forge one's own creative personality, is to travel, to see different environments, different cultures. I wanted to try to imagine a new kind of structure in architecture. In general, architects follow fashions. They're neoclassical, postmodern.
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Creative
Fashion
Personality
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For me, there's no difference between what's temporary and what's definitive. I built the church in Kobe, which was supposed to be temporary, and people liked it so much that there's a version of it still there today - unlike some concrete buildings that were just built for money and that can be destroyed from one day to the next. Concrete can be very fragile during earthquakes.
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Church
One Day
People
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Architects mostly work for privileged people, people who have money and power. Power and money are invisible, so people hire us to visualize their power and money by making monumental architecture. I love to make monuments, too, but I thought perhaps we can use our experience and knowledge more for the general public, even for those who have lost their houses in natural disasters.
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Architecture
House
People
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