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Tadao Ando was born in Osaka, Japan in 1941.
Ando did not receive any formal architectural schooling.
Instead, he trained himself by reading and traveling
extensively through Africa, Europe, and the United States.
In 1970 he established Tadao Ando Architect & Associates

Background for architectural ideas

Japan – overcrowded, noisy city

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He responds both sensitively and critically to the chaotic
Japanese urban environment, but maintains a connection to
the landscape
In opposition to traditional Japanese architecture, Ando
creates spaces of enclosure rather than openness.
He uses walls to establish a human zone and to counter the
monotony of commercial architecture.

He believes architecture can provide a

spiritual and even sacred dimension of the human existence

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On the exterior, the wall deflects the surrounding urban
chaos, while on the interior it encloses a private space
primarily in reinforced concrete.
Defines spaces in unique new ways that allow constantly
changing patterns of light and wind in all his structures, from
homes and apartment complexes to places of worship, public
museums and commercial shopping centers.
In all my works, light is an important controlling factor,”
says Ando.
“I create enclosed spaces mainly by means of thick concrete
walls. The primary reason is to create a place for the
individual, a zone for oneself within society.
When the external factors of a city’s environment require the
wall to be without openings, the interior must be especially
full and satisfying.”

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WALL
Walls manifest a power that borders on the violent.
They have the power to divide space, transfigure place, and
create new domains.
Walls are the most basic elements of architecture, but they
can also be the most enriching.”
light and wind only have meaning when they are introduced
inside a house in a form cut off from the outside world.
Wall to delineate a space – physically and psychologically
from the outside world.

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 House – personalized enclosed space
to make the inhabitants come together

to prevent the disintegration of self in an insipid

environment.

to force them to go beyond this enclosure to renew their

relationship to the society

I create architectural order on the basis of geometry: squares,

circles, triangles and rectangles.
I try to use forces in the area where I am building, to restore the
unity between house and nature (light and wind)

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Such things as light and wind only have meaning when they are
introduced inside a house in a form cut off from the outside
world. I create architectural order on the basis of geometry
squares, circles, triangles and rectangles

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The aim of HIS design is, while embodying HIS own
architectural theories, to impart rich meaning to spaces through
natural elements and the many aspects of daily life.
In other words, HE try to relate the fixed form and
compositional method to the kind of life that will be lived in the
given space and to local regional society.
My mainstay in selecting the solutions to these problems is my
independent architectural theory ordered on the basis of a
geometry of simple forms, my own ideas of life, and my
emotions as a Japanese.”

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Site area: 57.3 sqm
Building area: 33.7 sqm
Total floor area: 64.7 sqm

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Ando manages to create a microcosm that combines simply but
brilliantly concepts on the profane and the sacred, the artificial and the
natural, the enclosed and the exposed, the emptiness and the infinity

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I believe that a sacred space must be related in some way to nature,
which has nothing to do with animism or pantheism."

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