Tadao Andō

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Tadao Andō (2004)
Azuma House ( 住 吉 の 長 屋 ), Osaka , 1976
Residential building at Rokkō in Kobe , 1983
Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth , 2002
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe , 2002
Exhibition building of the Langen Foundation , Hombroich , 2014
Westin Hotel on Awaji Island , Japan

Tadao Andō ( Japanese 安藤 忠雄 , Andō Tadao ; born 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 . Andō gives lectures around the world that attract thousands of viewers.

Life

Andō grew up with his grandmother in post-war Japan. He started working as a carpenter as a child . His conscious exploration of architecture began when he came across a book about Le Corbusier at the age of 15 .

In his youth he became a professional boxer. He never studied architecture. As an autodidact , Andō opened his own studio in Osaka in 1969, which he called Tadao Andō Architect & Associates . He is currently the most famous architect in Japan. Andō has 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 . He has been retired since 2003.

In recent years, Ando has also become increasingly involved in environmental policy. In his Westin Awaji Island Hotel project , an extensive forest was created that surrounds the architecture. In 2007 he started the Umi-no-Mori (“sea forest”) project in Tokyo , which aims to turn an artificial island that used to be a garbage dump into a wooded local recreation area. Ando would like to carry the message from Japan into the world that it is important that humanity lives in harmony with the environment (see below, "Projects").

architecture

Ando's architecture is characterized by a consistent minimalism . His preferred material is the finest exposed concrete , the formwork panels of which are dimensioned according to the size of tatami mats, which together with the Rödel holes create an unmistakable surface pattern . For the basic shape of the building , he falls back on simple geometric shapes, often working with repetitions.

The interior design is based on ascetic principles: the center of the room is understood as a place of collection, the brightness is determined by light slits in the walls. The aim of the design of the rooms is to "find oneself" and to promote mental relaxation. Visitors to Andō's buildings do not enter directly, but can only get inside through a narrow and bendy path. This, too, should serve the inner concentration of those entering. Once there, a few large “picture windows” open up a view of the outside world and thus create a connection to the environment and nature, which plays a major role in Ando's work.

Tadao Ando's architecture combines influences from Japanese tradition with those of modernity . As a result, he has developed a completely new type of building aesthetic, in which concrete , wood , light, space and nature interact in an architecturally unique way. In Japan as well as in France , Italy , Spain , Germany and the United States, he has built multiple award-winning private houses, churches, museums, residential complexes and cultural institutions.

Buildings

Projects

  • In 2004 Andō was commissioned to build a museum for the Fondation François Pinault pour l'Art Contemporain on the Seine island Île Seguin in Boulogne-Billancourt near Paris (planning volume approx. 220 million euros). After disputes with environmentalists and urban planners, Pinault withdrew, however, and Ando's design remained.
  • On July 17, 2007, the groundbreaking ceremony for the Umi-no-Mori (“Forest on the Sea”) project in Tokyo took place . The aim is to convert an artificial island that previously served as a garbage dump into a wooded local recreation area. For this purpose, 480,000 trees are to be planted on 88 hectares. The project is financed by a worldwide donation campaign that is scheduled to run for 30 years. A first section of 47 hectares should be opened to the public in 2016; the opening is now planned for the 2020 Summer Olympics . On the island, the competitions are in the country riding as part of the eventing take place. The entire project is to be completed by 2036.

Awards

Andō has received numerous awards and many important architecture prizes .

Quotes

"Creating architecture means expressing representative aspects of the real world - such as nature, history, tradition and society - in a spatial structure, that is, in an abstract concept based on a clear, transparent logic."

"To truly understand architecture, you must experience space with all your five senses."

literature

by Andō

  • Akimoto, Yuji and Ando, ​​Tadao: The Chichu Art Museum. Tadao Ando builds for Walter de Maria , Claude Monet and James Turrell . Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2004.
  • Frampton, Kenneth and Ando, ​​Tadao: Tadao Ando - Light and Water . Birkhäuser, Basel, Berlin a. a. 2003.
  • Pare, Richard ; Ando, ​​Tadao; Heneghan, Tom: The colors of light. Tadao Ando architecture. Phaidon, Berlin 2000.
  • Andō, Tadao: Tadao Ando, ​​architecture and spirit. Gili, Barcelona 1998.

about Andō

  • Ohashi, Tomio: Andō Architects. Kazukiyo Matsuba, Tokyo u. a. 1998.
  • Barth, Steffen: Tadao Ando. Museum of World Cultures in the Rhine. Vice-Versa-Verlag, Berlin 1999.
  • Tadao Ando - Building Calm. Self-thaught Japanese architect Tadeo Ando has spent a lifetime honing his own rigorous simplicity. In: Graphis , Vol. 56 (2000), 327ff.
  • Dal Co, Francesco: Tadao Ando complete works. Phaidon, London 2000.
  • Retour aux origines: Tadao Ando à Awaji. In: Connaissance des arts , (2001), 582ff.
  • Asensio, Paco and Cuito, Aurora: Tadao Ando . teNeues, Düsseldorf, New York, NY and a. 2003.
  • Create something special with the ordinary. Tadao Ando, ​​the master of concrete, also built churches from this material. In: Art and Church (2003), 3ff.
  • Furuyama, Masao: Tadao Ando * 1941. The geometry of human space. Taschen Verlag , Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-8228-4892-1 .
  • Blaser, Werner: Tadao Ando. The Nearness of the Distant . Niggli , Sulgen, Zurich 2nd edition 2006, ISBN 3-7212-0555-3 .
  • Blaser, Werner: Tadao Ando. Build in the ground / Sunken Courts . Niggli, Zurich, Sulgen 2007, ISBN 978-3-7212-0609-8 .
  • Jodidio, Philip: Ando. Complete Works (Jumbo). Taschen Verlag , Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-8228-0930-3 .

Movie

  • Tadao Ando. From emptiness to infinity. Documentary, Germany, 2012, 26 min. Or 53 min., Written and directed: Matthias Frick, production: credo: film, NDR , arte , SRF , series: Sternstunde Kunst, first broadcast: February 10, 2013 on SF1 (53 min. ), Table of contents by BauNetz .

Web links

Commons : Tadao Ando  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Photo series

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 11,000 viewers on June 9, 2007 in Taipei : "Tadao Ando Is a Total Rock Star" , liaoyusheng.com , June 9, 2007
  2. ↑ 3,000 viewers on September 23, 2007 in Dublin : "It's rock and awe as Bono praises architect" , Irish Independent , September 23, 2007
  3. ^ Art museum falls foul of red tape. The Guardian , April 19, 2005 (accessed July 29, 2015).
  4. ↑ see: Poetically approximated. Tadao Ando builds a museum in Paris. BauNetz , October 31, 2001 (accessed July 28, 2015).
  5. ^ Transforming a man-made island of waste and surplus soil into an 'Umi-no-Mori (Green Island)'. Tokyo Metropolitan Government, July 2007 (English) ( Memento of 6 December 2008 at the Internet Archive ).
  6. ↑ A view over Tokyo Bay from Umi no Mori. Sumikai Magazine, February 27, 2017.
  7. ^ Island of trash in Tokyo Bay transforming into forested Olympic venue ( Memento from November 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Asahi Shimbun , July 25, 2014 (accessed July 28, 2015).
  8. ↑ Honorary Members: Tadao Andō. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed March 4, 2019 .
  9. ↑ after Masao Furuyama: Tadao Ando * 1941. The geometry of human space. Taschen Verlag, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-8228-4892-1 , blurb.
  10. ↑ after Günter Figal: Ando - space, architecture, modernity. modo Verlag, Freiburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-86833-220-9 .


personal data
SURNAME Andō, Tadao
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Andô, Tadao; 安藤 忠雄 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese architect
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Minato-ku , Osaka , Japan