I seek to instill the presence of nature within architecture [that is] austerely constructed by means of transparent logic. The elements of nature — water, wind, light, and sky — bring architecture derived from ideological thought down to the ground level of reality and awaken manmade life within it.  *

The central courtyard [of the Pulitzer] is covered with water, so that it is in effect an exhibition room with water for its floor and the sky for its ceiling...The sunlight, reflected and softened by the water, plays over the surfaces of the gallery. This gallery is filled, not with even light, but with a light that suggests the movement of the sun and the clouds outside, the passing of time, and the changing seasons.  #

* Tadao Ando, "Beyond Horizons in Architecture" in Kenneth Frampton, Tadao Ando (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1991), p. 76.

# Tadao Ando, Description of the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, GA Document 58 (Tokyo, April 1999): n.p.