Tadao Ando – Architect – remains Osaka’s Ando even long after becoming the world’s Ando. When he walks down the streets of his native city, people greet him spontaneously. His lectures attracted a passionate following. Ando casually engages students, housewives, and taxi drivers in conversation, gladly shaking their hands and signing autographs. Also in Asia, …
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Row House or Azuma House in Sumiyoshi is in Osaka’s shitumachi (“low city”) Sumiyoshi Shrine. In the middle of this working-class neighborhood full of odors of everyday life stands a mute wall. Known as Osaka’s “Deep South” district, this, the area is where Ando began his career as an architect. From the end of the …
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The Picture Book Library, also known as Picture Book Museum, located in Iwaki city, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. This renowned architecture masterpiece was designed by architect Tadao Ando. Ando designed this library for three preschools, who intended to use it as a library for the schools themselves. However, visitors keeps pouring in soon after the opening …
Naoshima Art Museum’s Architecture Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum was designed by the architecture Tadao Ando, the museum stands on a promontory on a small island floating in the Inland Sea. The building is relaxed and at rest-stretched out as if to enjoy the view of the sea. The spacious site creates an impression of brightness, lightness, …
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Museum of Wood’s Design and Structural Planning Ando designed a facility called the Museum of Wood in 1994 in a mountainous area of Hyogo Prefecture in Japan. This is a museum that provides an introduction to wood cultures around the world. The task was to create a place that enables visitors to experience a culture …
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Everyone has his/her own notion of spirituality and tries to touch it in his/her unique way. The reason we love Tadao Ando is that he does it through architecture. Meditation Space UNESCO, Paris is a perfect example. Concept and Architecture UNESCO celebrated its 5oth anniversary in 1995. To commemorate that event, it was decided to …
Langen Foundation by Tadao Ando At the address – Raketenstation Hombroich 1, 41472 Neuss, Germany you’ll find something which can only be experienced and is difficult to mould in words. The Langen Foundation building in Homborich is a seriously awesome piece of architecture. Let’s get hold of some facts about that building and its story …
The Kidosaki House is a house of great refinement located in a quiet residential district not far from the center of Tokyo, Japan. Its spaces are breathtaking in their sheer beauty. There is little to comment on with respect to this work. The beauty of its spaces leaves the observer at a loss for words. …
Tadao Ando designed the japan Pavilion for the 1992 International Exposition in Seville, Spain. The pavilion is an enormous wooden building. Aim of the Japan Pavilion The aim of the pavilion was to acquaint people in the rest of the world with the traditional aesthetic of japan, an aesthetic based on unadorned simplicity. The …
Tadao Ando’s Chikatsu-Asuka Historical Museum is bold and architectural ambition is embodied in a brilliantly simple design. Architectural ambition is the will to give order to the world, not through language or metaphysics, but design. Moreover in this case study I’ll be focussing on the importance of STAIRWAYS and how Japanese architect Tadao Ando has used …
