Tadao Ando
Tadao Ando (Japanese安藤 忠雄, Tadao Ando, * September 13, 1941 in Minato- ku, Osaka ) is a Japanese architect. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Pritzker Prize, the most prestigious architecture prize. Ando has lectured all over the world, attracting thousands of spectators.
Life
Ando grew up with his grandmother in postwar Japan. Even as a child he began to work as a carpenter. His conscious confrontation with the architecture began when he joined at the age of 15 years on a book about Le Corbusier.
In his youth he was a professional boxer. He has never studied architecture. Self-taught, Ando opened in 1969 in Osaka own studio, Tadao Ando that he called Architect & Associates. He is currently the most famous architect in Japan. Ando taught at various universities in the USA, namely, Yale (1987 ), Columbia ( 1988), Harvard (1990 ), at the IAA in Sofia and since 1997 at the University of Tokyo. Since 2003 he is professor emeritus.
In recent years, Ando also engaged environmentally increasingly. At his Westin Awaji Iceland hotel project a large-area forest was created surrounding the architecture. In 2007 he started the project Umi -no- Mori ( " Sea Forest " ) in Tokyo, in which an artificial island that was once used as a rubbish tip, is to become a wooded recreational area. Ando would thus carry the message from Japan to the world that it was important that the humanity in harmony with the environment lives (see below, " projects").
Architecture
The Ando's architecture is characterized by a consistent minimalism. His preferred material is the finest architectural concrete, whose shuttering panels are sized according to the size of tatami mats, which together with the holes Rödel a distinctive surface pattern. For the basic shape of the building, he draws on simple geometric forms, he often works with repetitions.
The design of the interior is based on ascetic principles: the center of the room is seen as a point of collection, the brightness is determined through light slits in the walls. The aim of the design of the rooms is a " Find to itself " and the promotion of mental relaxation. The visitor not found in Ando's buildings directly intake, but reaches only by a narrow bend and rich routing inside. This should also serve the internal collection of entrants. Once there, open a few large " picture window " view of the outside world, creating a connection to nature and the environment, which plays a major role in Ando's work.
Tadao Ando architecture combines influences from Japanese tradition with those of modernity. Ando has thus developed a completely unique building aesthetic that makes playing together in concrete, wood, light, space and nature in an architecturally unprecedented way. In Japan as well as in France, Italy, Spain, Germany and the United States, he has many built -winning private homes, churches, museums, apartment complexes, and cultural institutions.
Structures
- Azuma House - Osaka 1976
- Residential buildings at Rokko in Kobe, 1981-1983
- Koshino House - Ashiya, 1979 - 1984
- Festival - Shopping center in Naha, Okinawa, Japan, 1984
- House Kidosaki - Tokyo 1985
- Childrens Museum Himeji in Hyōgo, 1988-89
- Church of Light, Ibaraki, 1989-1990
- Conference and meeting building Vitra, Weil am Rhein, 1989-1993
- Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, 1989-92, 1997
- Water Temple, Awaji Island, Hyōgo, 1991
- Expo '92, Japan Pavilion, Seville, 1992
- Fabrica ( Benetton Research Center), Treviso, Italy, 2000
- Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts in St. Louis, Missouri, 2001
- Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in Fort Worth, Texas, 2002
- Hyōgo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, 2002
- Art of the Long House Foundation Hombroich Missile Base, Germany, 2004
- Omotesando Hills - Tokyo, 2005
- Stone Hill Center, expansion, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 2008
- Stone Sculpture Museum Fondation Kubach - Wilmsen in Bad Münster am Stein, 2010
Projects
- 2004 Ando was awarded the contract to build the Museum of the Fondation François Pinault pour l' Art Contemporain on an island in the Seine in Boulogne- Billancourt, near Paris (approx. € 165 million ). However, as the patron of the arts Pinault has withdrawn as a result of disputes with environmentalists and urban planners, it remains only at Ando's model.
- On 17 July 2007, the groundbreaking ceremony for the project Umi -no- Mori ( "Forest on the Sea" ) in Tokyo took place. The aim is to convert an artificial island, which was previously used as a rubbish dump in a wooded recreational area. For this to 480,000 trees will be planted on 88 hectares. The project is financed by a global fundraising campaign, which is applied to 30 years.
Awards
Ando has received numerous awards and many important architectural awards.
Quote
"To create architecture means representative aspects of the real world - such as nature, history, tradition and society - expressed in a spatial structure, that is, in an abstract concept based on a clear, transparent logic. "