Tadao Ando

(Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate)

1995
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.

He was never a good student, because he always

preferred learning things on his own.

He spent a lot of time as a child observing in a wood

working shop near his house, So he became interested
in trying to make shapes out of wood. Then he came to
understand the absolute balance between a form and
the material from which it is made.
 Later his interest gradually concentrated on architecture,
which makes possible the consideration of intimate relations
between material and form, and between volume and human
life.
 Influences
 Le Corbusier : using of rough concrete,
simple and geometrical forms

 Mies van der Rohe : spatially flow of spaces

 Alvar Aalto:
 Frank Lloyd Wright :integrating with nature
concrete structure
 STYLE
 what is architecture? Ando's response was, "the box that
provokes” means I have the somewhat arrogant belief that the
way people lead lives can be directed, even if by a little, by
means of architecture.“

 He has also said on other occasions, "I do not believe

architecture should speak too much. It should remain silent and
let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind speak."

 Ando developed a radically new architecture characterized by :

 the use of unfinished reinforced concrete structures
 Using ageometric simplicity
 Integrating with a site
 Wall enclosed space
 Ando has generated an architecture that shares the serenity
and clarity that characterize 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. On the exterior, the wall
deflects the surrounding urban chaos, while on the interior it
encloses a private space.
 Building materials mainly he used:
Concrete
wood
 Works
church of light (1989)
 This is a church that exist in
Osaka, Japan. made only with
 solid concrete
window glasses
Simple form
 The angled wall that pierce
through square box is stapled
only at the corner points.
 Lightning
concrete box with glazed
slits piercing and
intersecting the wall
behind the altar,
allowing sunlight to form
a bright cross in the
otherwise darkened
interior.
 to express the idea of God
as existing in one's heart
and mind.
 He uses rough unfinished
concrete
 Museum of wood (1994)
This museum exist in
Japan ,hyogo.
Well integrate with its site
Use traditional Japanese
material, wood
Really geometrical forms:
Intricate cone
Long line
Spatial flow in interior
by letting bridge.
He lets nature to speak
loudly
He even introduce nature to
interior space. using fountain and
lifted bridge
Naoshima Contemporary Art
Museum
is located on the southern
edge of Naoshima island
between a high hill
covered with deep woods
and a promontory of
rugged rocks and beach.

Compose circles and

nature in interesting way.

The building is under the

ground means: he
experience how to let
nature be free.
He done lightning system
in amazing manner.
 Suntory Museum in Osaka
 is one of Tadao Ando's most
successful expressions of his
favorite theme: the relationship
between man, water and
architecture.
 Use simple geometrical form.

 The building consists of an

overturned truncated cone
volume intersected by solid
bodies rectangular in shape.
Each volume has its own
function:
 the truncated cone
houses the spherical body
of the IMAX theatre,
 while the two
parallelepipeds
intersecting it contain the
museum and the
restaurant.
Has terrace which goes
to the natural
environment
 SUMMERY
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.
Tadao Ando and Le Corbusier