Ando built it to be his home in 1995 but never moved in. As the luminaries swap business cards, Ando teases him: "I already have a job.". His younger years had no trace of great promise: he worked briefly as a professional boxer and a lorry driver, before aged 24 boarding a Siberian train to Europe "to see the world.". He has been trying to leave, in fact, since his initial description of the house. A picture by Ellsworth Kelly is a geometric figure like an orange ice-cream cone. From tiny homes with gaping internal courtyards to sprawling housing complexes, and then churches that seemed as much a hymn to his own style as to the spiritual realm, by 1995 Ando's concrete vision had conquered the architectural world, and he was awarded its highest accolade: the Pritzker Prize. After he sailed back to his native of Osaka, without a degree or having trained with a master, Ando got his architecture license and starting designing buildings. “A church is a home town for the spirit, a place where the spirit lives. “Please write this,” he says. He did everything himself.". Big or small. Slotted between three traditional Japanese houses, the Row House in Sumiyoshi is a reclusive stronghold fed natural light only by its interior courtyard. However, since I got used to it, I enjoy living in this house. Ando’s most prized objects are works of modern art, many by life-long friends such as Takesada Matsutani and Shuji Mukai, who were members of the radical Gutai group in Osaka in the 1950s. “This picture by Mukai-san of the Gutai group is important to me. Why? Sometimes I get excited about living here, and sometimes this house challenges me ... (but) I have never become bored of all the experiences.". "(My work) seems like something which anyone can make," he tells CNN. Shanghai's Poly Grand Theater, completed by Ando in 2017. The Punta Della Dogana had lain empty for three decades before Tadao Ando regenerated it. I wanted to make a place that changes from morning, to midday and evening.
He signs a book and thrusts it across the table. “The basement, the first-floor living room, the second-floor study — they are all different. And a couple of years ago he told Japanese TV that he lives in a normal apartment. "That's the message to society: Be free to strike out.". Inside, its solemnity is breathtaking. Today, the Buddha sits inside a manmade concrete hill covered in lavender, the top of its head just visible. The visitor approaches through a tunnel until they arrive at the Buddha’s feet, and suddenly it rears above them in its majesty and mystery. Today, it houses François Pinault's modern art collection. At the same time, you should look to the future. I have to think whether I have made a home for the spirit or not.
Tadao Ando is awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in Versailles on May 22, 1995. Credit: PASCAL GUYOT/AFP/AFP/Getty Images "His life and his works inspire," says Motohashi.
An elevated railway line clatters noisily behind the plot.
Even photos of his work seem to kindle something in the viewer.
Across his extension Ando has built a thin window, and when seated in his Dream Chair, the trains race through it at eye level, seeming to come from and disappear into nowhere, like a magical model railway. "That's why this exhibition is called 'Endeavors.' “I built my first house 45 years ago. "Even though Tadao Ando does huge projects, he still believes that houses are the fundamental part of his work," explains Motohashi.
They are inside a life-sized replica of the Church of the Light, the famous Osaka chapel by Japanese architect Tadao Ando, which perfectly demonstrates his signature manipulation of the relationship between concrete, space and light. You should respect old people, you should respect old buildings. It sparked a trend. “It must properly fulfil its function but basically I want to make a home for the spirit. You can find it listed in architecture books as the “Atelier” or “Studio Annexe”. Tadao Ando’s house could not be more Tadao Ando. Ando is still building all around the world — apartments in New York, houses in Sri Lanka, galleries in China — but not enough in Osaka, the earthy mercantile centre of historic Japan, which has gone through two decades of economic struggle as famous corporations such as Sharp and Sanyo succumb. "His life and his works inspire," says Motohashi. His brief was to build something that would draw attention to the religious sculpture.
A giant illuminated model of the island is the centerpiece of the exhibition's central hall, a vast, light-bathed space showcasing the big projects of Ando's 50-year career. And, of course, Ando has just launched the biggest ever celebration of his own work. PhD Dissertation title: Empty Cross: Nothingness and the Church of Light Completed: 2004 Ando’s answer was to bury it in a mound of earth, so only the top of the statue’s head is visible, making it look mysterious — almost comical.
In the following decade, Ando built six more public buildings there, abandoned homes were turned into guesthouses, Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama famously installed one of her polka dot pumpkins at the end of a pier, and Naoshima's triennial arts festival now brings about 800,000 tourists to the island each year. Because I still have things to do. Despite his age, Ando burns with vigour. It is my architecture.". It is quite a relief. Or food in the kitchen.
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