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In a traditional Japanese or Chinese garden, it's not only about the building or temple but about the whole setup - the structure, the landscape, the light, the plants, the water. The whole experience that makes your life there so beautiful.

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Architecture is about experience: not only visual but also what you can touch, what you can feel.

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I have never been to Mars. What will we discover when we get there? A red landscape, quiet horizon, frozen glaciers? Probably all is as beautiful, in its own way, as the Earth was thousands of years ago.

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There must be a way to combine the high rise and high-density environment with nature. Maybe we can have our gardens in the sky.

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In our traditional culture, people have a very different view towards nature than in Western culture. We consider humans as part of nature. But in the West, they talk about protecting nature. That's a joke because nature doesn't care; it's humans who need to protect themselves.

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The difficulty with big cities does not lie in skyscrapers or high-rises per se; rather, it is the values concealed within those buildings which lead to the loss of our humanity and our sense of spiritual emptiness.

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I think where traditional values are concerned, Chinese people see nature as very symbolic. It's a form of culture.

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When we talk about a city, we need to talk about what the future is. Whats the ideal scenario in the future?

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The way a human can coexist with nature has to be at the spiritual level.

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A pool at the edge of the ocean is the simplest geometry, yet you feel connected to the sea. In a forest with the mountains in the background, you also feel the connection to nature, yet it's a very complex geometry. I think architecture is about controlling these feelings.

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Nationality: Chinese

Type: Architect

Born: Unknown

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