ㅤㅤㅤㅤ Ando was raised in Japan where the religion and style of life strongly influenced his architecture and design. Ando's architectural style is said to create a "haiku" effect, emphasizing nothingness and empty space to represent the beauty of simplicity. He favors designing complex spatial circulation while maintaining the appearance of simplicity. A self-taught architect, he keeps his Japanese culture and language in mind while he travels around Europe for research.
ㅤㅤㅤㅤ As an architect, he believes that architecture can change society, that "to change the dwelling is to change the city and to reform society". "Reform society" could be a promotion of a place or a change of the identity of that place. Werner Blaser has said, "Good buildings by Tadao Ando create memorable identity and therefore publicity, which in turn attracts the public and promotes market penetration".

“When I was a professional boxer in my youth, I learned to train progressively harder to defeat larger and stronger opponents.”

ㅤㅤㅤㅤ Tadao Ando born in 13 September 1941 is a Japanese autodidact architect whose approach to architecture and landscape was categorized by architectural historian Francesco Dal Co as "critical regionalism". He is the winner of the 1995 Pritzker Prize.

Place of birth

Osaka, Japan

Favourite atchitecture

Corbusier

In 1968 established

Tadao Ando Architects and Associates

Ando and his favourite

Ando’s home, Japan

Awaji Yumebutai

Main enterance

The main hall

Awaji Yumebutai

ㅤㅤㅤㅤ Tadao Ando has a twin brother: He has a twin brother named Takao Kitayama, born minutes before him. They were separated after two years, and his brother was raised by the parents. Takao Kitayama is now a successful businessman. Tadao Ando uses his own recipe of concrete – ‘Ando Concrete’.

ㅤㅤㅤㅤ Tadao Ando uses his own recipe of concrete – ‘Ando Concrete’.
He explains that it must be a perfect balance of steel bars, the water, the sand, and aggregate. The bars are placed at an equal distance, hence the holes. And the mix shouldn’t be runny—it should be viscous. Now you know the secret behind that smooth-silky signature finish.

Church of light designed by Tadao

Japan, Osaka

He has a twin brother

His fridge always has empty space

Designed Churches

He is a Self Taught Architecture

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“I believe that architecture is not the construction of buildings but rather the creation of space. I always try to reduce all the material elements."

Education

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A self-taught architect

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Style of buildings

Simplicity, minimalism

ㅤㅤㅤㅤDue to the simplicity of the exterior, construction, and organization of the space are relatively potential in order to represent the aesthetic of sensation.
Besides speaking of the spirit of architecture, Ando also emphasises the association between nature and architecture. He intends for people to easily experience the spirit and beauty of nature through architecture. He believes architecture is responsible for performing the of the site and makes it visible. This not only represents his theory of the role of architecture in society but also shows why he spends so much time studying architecture from physical experience.
ㅤㅤㅤㅤTadao Ando's body of work is known for the creative use of natural light and for structures that follow natural forms of the landscape, rather than disturbing the landscape by making it conform to the constructed space of a building. Ando's buildings are often characterized by complex three-dimensional circulation paths. These paths weave in between interior and exterior spaces formed both inside large-scale geometric shapes and in the spaces between them.

ㅤㅤㅤㅤThe simplicity of his architecture emphasizes the concept of sensation and physical experiences, mainly influenced by Japanese culture. Zen influences vividly show in Ando's work and became its distinguishing mark. In order to practice the idea of simplicity, Ando's architecture is mostly constructed with concrete, providing a sense of cleanliness and weightlessness at the same time.

“Nature in the form of light, water, and sky restores architecture from a metaphysical to an earthly plane and gives life to space.”

Langen Foundation near Neuss

North Rhine-Westphalia, German museum

ㅤㅤㅤㅤ This is followed by the work of the artist, sculptor, musician Walter De Maria, known for his installations. After the success of his work "Seen/Unseen Known/Unknown" on another site of Naoshima Island in 2000, the artist was also invited to the Chichu Museum. Here he implements the "Time/Timeless/No Time" project. The installation contains a central element - a polished granite ball with a diameter of 2.2 meters, which stands in the center of a wide staircase, and 27 gilded geometric sculptures placed around in a special way.
ㅤㅤㅤㅤ Natural light seeps into the space and creates stunning lighting effects that change throughout the day, transforming the space itself. The installation becomes even more amazing at dusk, when warm light fills the room, refracts and reflects in golden sculptures, and a giant granite ball collects these reflections and begins to sparkle with light.

ㅤㅤㅤㅤ The first gallery displays five works from the "Water Lilies" cycle by Claude Monet. More than other artists, Monet was fascinated by light, which often became a character in his paintings. The series "Water Lilies" consists of 250 works depicting a pond in the artist's estate ㅤㅤㅤㅤ There is an opinion that Monet could work on several works at the same time, every day for five minutes on each work, trying to preserve the uniqueness of the state of light at each moment. The space in which Monet's Water Lilies is displayed is ideal for this: the floor is covered with 1-inch mosaic tiles, and the gallery itself is flooded with reflected natural light.

ㅤㅤㅤㅤ Chichu Art Museum (Cichu Bijutsukan) is one of the most famous museums of contemporary art. It was built in 2004 by Japanese architect Tadao Ando. The museum is located in the southern part of the small fishing island of Naoshima in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan.
ㅤㅤㅤㅤ The museum is part of a large cultural project Benesse Art Site Naoshima, which includes various art sites carried out on the nearby islands of Naoshima (Naoshima), Teshima (Teshima), Inujima (Inujima). The purpose of this project is to promote the natural beauty of the Inland Sea of Japan (Seto Naikai). Museums and other art spaces should arouse tourist interest in this picturesque area.
ㅤㅤㅤㅤ The Titiu Museum was conceived as a place where the special relationship between nature and man should be comprehended. The name of the museum "Cichu Bijutsukan" literally translates as "Art Museum in the Earth". Most of the museum is located inside the hill, in order to preserve the landscape of the Inner Sea unchanged. Despite this, the main thing in the underground continuous space of the museum is light: the "museum in the ground" is filled with natural light.
ㅤㅤㅤㅤ Tityu, however, was created as a special playground for and around a small collection of art. The works of three artists - Claude Monet, James Turrell and Walter de Maria - make up the museum's permanent exhibition. Temporary events often take place on the territory - pumpkins by Yayoi Kusama, photographs by Hiroshi Sugimoto and many other projects were exhibited here. However, the architecture of the museum is subordinated to the existence of the main exhibition.

{Chichu Art Museum}
2004

Top view of the museum

Place

Naoshima

Peculiarities

a special playground for and around a small art collection

Date of construction

2004

Hall №5 Japan 2004

ㅤㅤㅤㅤ Tadao Ando's project "Koshino House" consists of two parallel concrete rectangular blocks. Forms are partially buried in the slopes of the national park and become a compositional addition to the landscape. Placed carefully so as not to damage the site's pre-existing trees, the structure responds to the surrounding ecosystem, while the concrete forms speak to a more general nature through playful manipulation of light.

{Koshino house}
1984

Northern part of the

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Ando used the space inside two rectangular prisms as a way to express the fundamental character of the place.

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The two rooms of the house are connected by an
underground tunnel, which is located under the
outer staircase of the courtyard.

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Four years after the original construction, Ando designed
a new cave-like extension to the complex.

house with living room and kitchen

ㅤㅤㅤㅤ While respecting the Bourse de Commerce’s historical features, the ambitious and painstaking renovation involved inserting a cylinder of reinforced concrete – 29 meters in diameter and rising 9.3 meters – below the dome’s circular structure and the restored frescoes showing scenes of trade among five continents.
ㅤㅤㅤㅤ This new volume delimits the main exhibition hall, a warm and collected space despite being under the huge dome. The gap between the addition and the facade of Blondal becomes a passageway around the main space, with a hallway and a staircase along the circular wall, connecting the ground floor with the 284-seat auditorium and the exhibition galleries in the basement.

{The Bourse de Commerce’s}
2020

Main hall of museum

Statue of David and the ceiling

The second floor

“Nature in the form of light, water, and sky restores architecture from a metaphysical to an earthly plane and gives life to space.”