Andô, Tadao Architect

BIOGRAPHY

Andô, Tadao

Self-educated in architecture japanese architect . Between 1962 and

1969 he travelled extensively, studying first-hand the architecture of Japan,

Europe, America and Africa. In 1969 he founded his own practice in Osaka.

An inheritor of the Japanese anti-seismic reinforced-concrete tradition, Andô

became one of the leading practitioners in this genre. Capable of using fair-

faced, precision-cast reinforced-concrete walls to maximum effect, he

created a uniquely minimalist modern expression, yielding an architecture of

very firmly bounded domains. He spoke of using 'walls to defeat walls', by

which he meant deploying the orthogonal, strictly geometric volumes of his

earlier work as a way of resisting the empirical, not to say random, chaos of

the average Japanese megalopolis.

To this end most of his early houses are highly introspective; notable

examples include two houses in Sumiyoshi, Osaka: the award-winning,

diminutive terraced Azuma House (1976) and the Glass Block Wall House

(1979), built for the Horiuchi family. The latter is a courtyard house that

gains light and views solely from its small internal atrium. The Koshino

House (1981), built in the pine-wooded, upper-class suburbs of Ashiya

(Hyôgo Prefecture), takes a more open courtyard form, but again, as in all of

Andô's subsequent work, its subtle beauty stems from the ever-changing

impact of natural light on its concrete surfaces. As in the in-situ concrete

Sôseikan tea house added to the Yamaguchi House, Takarazuka (Hyôgo

Prefecture), in 1982, Andô never alluded to the Japanese tradition directly

but always instead to the qualities of both half-muted and sharply contrasting

light in which this tradition is steeped.

Ando's later work opened up towards the surrounding landscape,

particularly where he worked on sites graced with spectacular views over

mountainous escarpments and the ocean. This more expansive spirit runs as

a continuous theme in his architecture after 1983, the year in which he

completed his stepped Rokko Housing, Kobe, reminiscent of Le Corbusier's

Roy et Rob project of 1946.

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This new-found topographic poetic is patently evident in his Mt

Rokko Chapel (1986, see fig.), Kobe, and in the later Chapel-on-the-Water

and Chapel of Light (both completed between 1988 and 1990), Ibaraki; in

the latter a huge cruciform shape was cut out of the concrete wall behind the

altar so that the morning sun creates a cross of light.

After completing more than 50 buildings in 15 years, Ando began to

adopt a more public caste in his work, as is evident from his Children's

Museum (1990), Hyogo. At this juncture his strict geometry opened up a

little, admitting cylindrical forms and diagonal episodes in conjunction with

the highly contoured sites on which he worked. Like many other Japanese

architects, Ando sought a synthesis between archaic values and modern

technology. To this end, eschewing fashionable form and ironic comment, he

aspired to an architecture that would be as symbolic and laconic as the

traditional Japanese form in poetry.haiku

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HUMANITY

"The goal of my architecture," "is to endow space withmeaning by using the natural elements and varied aspects of everyday 1ife.The forms l've designed have acquired meaning from their relationship tothe elements of nature: light and air, indications of the passing of time andthe changes of season."

"to inlect his architecture with the strength to generate emotions, theemotions man is capable of feeling within himself."

"the wall in the Japanese domestic tradition does not exist in real terms”

he affirrms,

Ando considers that, frequently hidebound by economic, technological andlegal strictures, architecture is built in an overly conservative way andargues that it has abandoned the kind of space capable of inspiring thespirit. For that reason he insists on personally attempting:

The architect thus speaks of the ambiguity, the suggestiveness, thedevelopment ot architecture for managing to create spaces in whlch man,feeling and memory come into play. He calls on spaces and volumes thatseparate and connect at the same time. On elements that create anticlpationthrough Suggestion, like a window covered in a panel of shoji. Faced withthe Western house as castle, he speaks of Oriental society's communionwith nature and argues that architecture must form a continuum with saidnature:

He observes, adding at the same time that the proportions are alwaysrelative to, and dependent on, the way that human body moves.

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EMOTION

For Tadao Ando the act of thinking leads to a state of permanent awareness,and for that reason he defendes complementary contraditions whendesining:

He considers tha arquitecture must compren both abstraction and figurationin a harmonous unity.Ando points out that, objectibely, a line drown by anarquitect can define a space and such is directly involved in people´s bodyand spirit.

“the convination of Western rationallity and Eastern lack of logic, themixture of abstract and concrete, the autonomy of construction founded onthe sympathy for the location”.

“I believe the architect has a duty to offer people places in wich they canbecome aware of their own bodies, of their own emotions in the presence ofnature. My goal is to create places in which man can feel as confortableand free as in nature itself”.

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GEOMETRY

Tadao Ando often uses the same geometric repertory to give shape to hisbuildings:

For this reason he likes to convert natural elements (water, wind, light,sound ...) into abstract shapes:

“While I´m designing I elect to work with circles and squares as a basicgeometry for instigating the proces of change. This forms, complitelyabtract when aproximating to the site´s natural surroundings, take on thesing of humanity. If a building doesn´t aproximate to the site won´t possestha sing” he says, but claims that it´s “the logic of the forms which hasgreater force as a geometrical power”

“I work on the essence and try to condensate it to abstraction”

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CONCRETE

“I chose concrete as tha basic material for almost all my proyects, thoughnot just for economic reasons: my main desire was to try and arrive atspatial purity. The mental 5response and the spiritual quality mustgenerate the architecture itself”

“details are visible sings of our architectural ideas while you arenegotiating the gap between the whole and the part. The mayority of detailsemerge in the building process”

“genuin materials (concrete, unpainted wood), pure geometrical shapes,and domenticated nature in the form of light, water, and air”

argues Ando.

He enphasize this idea saying that:

This way, working with extremely simple forms (circle and subdivisions ofthe square) Ando manage to understand the equilibrium that must existbetween the given form and the materials from where it´s built. For thisreasons he opts for the presence of three basic elements:

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NATURE

“The life of human being does not consist in oposing himself to nature or inprotecting himself against it, or even trying to subjugate it. Man´s goal is tounite itnself with nature. Contrary to what happens in teh west, in Japan,culture tends to dismantle the phisical barriers between hause and land,between interior and exterior”

“Japan exchanged an agrarian culture that was extremely close to land foran urban way of life imported from the west.”

says ando.

He argues that Second World War radically transformed the relationship inhis country between architecture and nature:

Tadao thinks that if an architect attempts to understan the landscape andthe forces intervening in it , the result of the desing is a building that createsa dialog with the inmediate surraundings. When that happens, a personknows he´s designed a building that couldn´t be in any other place.

LIGHT

All throught his carear Ando has look to ligth, not just as a physicalpresence but for it´s trascendental implications as web. He considers thalight is the source of all being. Confronted with the surface of things, hecontour them with shadows and highlights, lends them deph. Things arearticulated in relation to their obscure and illuminated edges and attain theirqualities because of such relationships

Ando thinks that artificial ligth lacks the strength of natural light, for thatreason it renders the context less present and tends to homogenize interiorspaces:

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“The creation of space in architecture is simply the condensation andpurification of the power of light”

“The roll of light is fundamental when creating forms in architecture”.

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4 Interview

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ORDER

“Repose for the mind and a spiritual quality dictate the nature of the house.Domestic space must encourage relation. Mental peace is as important asphyical rest, and that is why form and space must provide physical confortand mental peace”

“I believe that austerity, like confort, forms part of life. In many of my houseboth posibilities exist side by side... order is necesary to lend dignity to life .Order imposes restrictions, but olso permits the growth of great projects”

“Such things as light and wind only have meaning when they are introducedinside a house in a form cut off from the outside world. I create architecturalorder on the basis of geometry: squares, circles, triangles and rectangles. Itry to use forces in the area where I am building, to restore the unity betweenhouse and nature (light and wind) that was lost in the process ofmodernizing Japanese houses during the rapid growth of the fifties andsixties.”

He sais. But he clarifies what might seam a contradition in his ideas:

Ando continúes:

TRAVELS

Ando made study trips to Europe and the United States in the sixties to viewand analyze great buildings of western civilization, keeping a detailed sketchbook which he does even to this day when he travels. In addition to LeCorbusier, Ando mentions Mies van der Rohe, Alvar Aalto, Frank LloydWright and Louis Kahn of importance in his development. He described avisit to Wright' original Imperial Hotel when he was only seventeen.

About that same time, Ando relates that he discovered a book about LeCorbusier in a secondhand bookstore in Osaka. it took several weeks to saveenough money to buy it. Once in his possession, Ando says:

When he visited Marseilles, Ando recalls visiting Le Corbusier's Unitéd'Habitation, and being intrigued by the dynamic use of concrete. Although

“I had never heard of him, nor did I know anything about the building. Butthe Imperial Hotel fascinated me and my curiosity took me inside. Iremember a dark, narrow corridor with an extremely low ceiling leadinginto a huge hall. It was like walking through a cave. I think Wright learnedthe most important aspect of architecture, the treatment of space, fromJapanese architecture. When I visited Falling Water in Pennsylvania, I foundthat same sensibility of space. But there were the additional natural soundsof nature that appealed to me.”

“I traced the drawings of his early period so many times that all the pagesturned black. In my mind, I quite often wonder how Le Corbusier wouldhave thought about this project or that.”

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Ando's Reaction To Being Named1995 Laureate

Following is a translation of Ando's reaction when

notified that he had won the prize.

I am bewildered by the news that I have been selected as a

recipient of the 1995 Pritzker Architecture Prize. The faces of

previous prize winners, beginning with Philip Johnson, keep

reappearing in my mind's eye, and I cannot help but wonder

about my future works. Since for me, making architecture is

the same as thinking, even more than before, I will have to

pose contemporary questions at the same time as reflecting

upon history and speculating into the future. It is a time for

me to brace my own spirit so that I can actualize increasingly

responsible building projects. In the world of rapidly

transforming values, my hope is to help promote both an

architecture and a city which embrace humanity with

enduring care and love.

In the early morning of January 17, 1995, we were struck by

a horrible earthquake and the consequent disasters. It was

painful for us to see the devastation of the places close to our

heart. In spite of this disaster, it is our small comfort to find

that none of the buildings designed by Tadao Ando located in

Kobe and in the area close the fault zone were damaged.

They are all safe. We have over 30 buildings, including the

Water Temple in Awajishima Island (the center of the fault

zone), Rokko Housing, I and II, and a number of private

houses and school facilities in the Hansin area. These

buildings all survived and stand firmly.

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Citation from the Jury

Tadao Ando is that rare architect who combines artistic and

intellectual sensitivity in a single individual capable of

producing buildings, large and small, that both serve and

inspire . His powerful inner vision, ignores whatever

movements, schools or styles that might be current, creating

buildings with form and composition related to the kind of

life that will be lived there.

At an age when most architects are beginning to do their first

serious works, Ando has accomplished an extraordinary body

of work, primarily in his native Japan, that already sets him

apart. Working with smooth-as-silk concrete, Ando creates

spaces using walls which he defines as the most basic

element of architecture, but also the most enriching.

In spite of his consistent use of materials and the elements of

pillar, wall, and vault, his different combinations of these

elements always prove exciting and dynamic. His design

concepts and materials have linked international Modernism

to the Japanese tradition of aesthetics. His dedication and

understanding of the importance of craftsmanship have

earned him the appellation of builder as well as architect.

He is accomplishing his self-imposed mission to restore

the unity between house and nature. Using the most

basic geometric forms, he creates microcosms for the

individual with ever changing patterns of light. But far

more than achieving some abstract design concept, his

architecture is a reflection of a fundamental process of

building something for habitation.

Ando's architecture is an assemblage of artistically

composed surprises in space and form. There is never

a predictable moment as one moves through his

buildings. He refuses to be bound by convention.

Originality is his medium and his personal view of the

world is his source of inspiration.

The Pritzker Architecture Prize honors Tadao Ando not

only for works completed, but also for future projects

that when realized, will most certainly further enrich the

art of architecture.

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what is the best moment of the day?

what kind of music do you listen to at the moment?

what books do you have on your bedside table?

do you read architecture and design magazines?

I assume you notice how women dress.do you have any preferences?

what kind of clothes do you avoid wearing?

do you have any pets?

where do you work on your designs and projects?

who would you like to design something for?

do you discuss or exchange ideas with other architects?

describe your style, like a good friend of yours would describe it.

no particular moment.morning maybe good because of the feeling of beginning.

mostly classic.

I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understandwhat's going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature.I read a lot, but nothing comes to mind at the moment.

I don't read them. just look at it.

I don't look so closely at women's fashion, but from the 20th century on,people have had the freedom to express themselves and their individualities,and fashion is one of the most fundamental ways in which they do this,men and women are equally able to express themselves.

nothing in particular.

a dog named 'le corbusier'.

once I traveled a lot, to see the nature, the countryside and the cities,with a sketchbook... a practice I continue today.but plans actually I draw in my office.

I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources,to move into the future.although now we are more and more governed by the american wayof thinking, money, the economy...I hope that now people will shift to a more european way (of thinking),culture, individuality, and that people move towards new goals.so for me to be able to contribute to this would be great.

not much.

walls are the most basic elements of architecture,and in all my works, light is an important factor.the primary reason is to create a place for the individual,a zone for oneself within society.its very difficult to explain or describe my style, I hope the answer willcome out of the interview.

what project has given you the most satisfaction?

do you try to find meeting points between asian and european cultures?

is there any architect from the past you admire?

what current architects do you appreciate?

did you always want to be an architect?

why are you here in milan today?

on the news broadcast they said that italians are afraid ofunemployment, criminality and pollution.what are you afraid of regarding the future ?

as an architect you have to do your best work for any project,but for me the most satisfying thing is when architecture cando something to make people's lives better, to inspire them.

I don't see them as opposites, the west and the east,but for example western society seems to be centered onamerican culture.but I think it is important to understand that apart from thatmain culture, there are so many other cultures,and it is necessary to respect them all and their differences.

of course I learned from history, from the renaissance,from mies van der rohe, le corbusier, terragni... many architects.

like with the work of the past, as an architect you have to look aroundand see what your contemporaries are creating,for my contemporaries I have respect and interest.

right from the beginning yes, but in my life I have done many things,at one time I was a boxer...I was never a good student.I always preferred learning things on my own.

because giorgio armani asked me to design a theater in milan for himand today is the inauguration of the building.

I'm afraid that people don't want the future to happen.in order for people to want this, each person has to have goals in their life,to feel proud.work is one of the ways of achieving this.unemployment is dangerous because then people don't use their resources.each individual has to be able to use their abilities.

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TADAO ANDO

1941 Born in Osaka, Japan

1962-69 Self-educated in architectureTraveled in the United States, Europe and Africa

1969 Established Tadao Ando Architect & Associates

1979 Annual Prize, Architectural Institute of Japan: Row House, Sumiyoshi (Azuma House)

1985 5th Alvar Aalto Medal, Finnish Association of Architects

1989 Gold Medal, French Academy of Architecture

1991 Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize, American Academy and Institute of Arts & Letters

1992 Carlsberg Architectural Prize, Denmark

1993 Award of Prizes of the Japan Art Academy

1995 , France Pritzker Architecture Prize

1996 8th Premium Imperiale First “Frate Sole” International Prize for Sacred Architecture

1997 Royal Gold Medal, Royal Institute of British Architects

, France. Hyogo Prefecture Cultural Award

1998 6th Public Building Awards : Chikatsu-Asuka. Historical Museum, Osaka

1991 Honorary Fellow, American Institute of Architects

1993 Honorary Fellow, Royal Institute of British Architects

1997 Honorary Member, German Architect Association ( )

1998 Honorary Fellow, French Academy of Architecture. Honorary Fellow, Royal Incorporation of

. Architects in Scotland

1987 Yale University, Visiting Professor

1988 Columbia University, Visiting Professor

1990 Harvard University, Visiting Professor

1997 Tokyo University, Professor

1982 International Architectural Conference, Charlottesville Conference “P3,” U.S.

1986 International Architectural Conference, Chicago Conference “P4,” U.S.

1991 , Kobe

1992 Anywhere Conference, Yufuin, Oita

1996 Japan-France Cultural Summit '96, Tokyo

1997 Japan-France Cultural Summit '97, Paris

1999 , Louvre, Paris. Scientific Committee of the 20th UIA .

. Beijing '99 Congress

1991 Museum of Modern Art, New York

1993 Centre Georges Pompidou, ParisRoyal Institute of British Architects, London

1995 Basilica Palladiana, Venice

1996 6th Venice Biennale, Venice

1998 National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea; Seoul. Royal Academy of Arts, London

1999 Galerie Aedes East, Berlin

Awards

Affiliations

Academic Activities

Conferences

Selected Exhibitions

Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des

. Lettres

Bund Deutscher Architekten

Retransmission en direct pour le symposium international de l'amitie franco-japonaise

Les Architectes Japonais et le Musée

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Competitions

Representative Works

Project

Monographs

1990-91 The Art Museum in Stockholm, Sweden

1990-91 The Reconstruction of JR (Japan Railway) Kyoto Station, Japan

1992 Nara City Hall, Japan

1994-95 Tate Gallery of Modern Art, London

1995 The National Museum of Korea

1996 The Church of the Year 2000, Vicariato di Roma, Italy

1997 Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, U.S. (Winning Idea)

Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Hyogo, Japan (Winning Idea)

1998 The New de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park, U.S.

1999 Manchester City Centre Piccadilly Gardens Regeneration, U.K. (Winning Idea). Nelson Atkins

. Museum, U.S. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Spain. Musée du Quai Branly, .

. France

2000 Saint John's Abbey, Guest House, U.S. (Winning Idea)

1976 Row House, Sumiyoshi, Osaka

1981 Koshino House, Kobe, Hyogo

1983 Rokko Housing I, Kobe, Hyogo

1984 Time's I, Kyoto

1986 Chapel on Mt. Rokko, Kobe, Hyogo.Kidosaki House, Tokyo

1988 Church on the Water, Hokkaido

1989 Church of the Light, Osaka. Children's Museum, Himeji, Hyogo

1991 Museum of Literature, Himeji, Hyogo. Water Temple, Awaji Island, Hyogo

1992 Japanese Pavilion, Expo '92, Seville, Spain. Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Naoshima,

. Kagawa

1993 Rokko Housing II, Kobe, Hyogo

1994 Chikatsu-Asuka Historical Museum, Osaka. Suntory Museum, Osaka

1995 Meditation Space, UNESCO, Paris

1996 Oyamazaki Villa Museum, Oyamazaki, Kyoto

1998 TOTO Seminar House, Awaji, Hyogo.Daylight Museum (Hiroki Oda Museum), Gamo-gun,

1999 Rokko Housing III, Kobe, Hyogo

2000 Awaji-Yumebutai (Awaji Island Project), Awaji, Hyogo

1988-present Nakanoshima Project II (Urban Egg + Space Strata), Osaka

1987 , ADA Edita, Tokyo

1989 , Rizzoli International Publications, New York

1990 o, Academy Editions, London/St.Martin's Press

1991 , ADA Edita, Tokyo

1993 , ADA Edita, Tokyo

1994 , Electa, Milan

199 , Phaidon Press Limited, London

1996 , Phaidon Press Limited, London

, Phaidon Press Limited, London

1997 , Taschen, Cologne , ADA Edita, Tokyo

2000 , El Croquis, Madrid. , ADA Edita,

GA Architect 8: Tadao Ando

Tadao Ando: The Yale Studio & Current Works

Architectural Monographs 14: Tadao And

GA Details: Tadao Ando

GA Architect 12: Tadao Ando

Documenti di architettura Tadao Ando

Tadao Ando: Complete Works

Church on the Water, Church of the Light

The Colours of Light

Tadao Ando GA Details 2: Tadao Ando

Tadao Ando 1983-2000 GA Architect 16: Tadao Ando

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