The boxer-turned-urban-guerrilla who graduated into a Pritzker prize-winning architect is having a retrospective at National Art Center Tokyo.

Image 7 of 13 from gallery of AD Classics: Koshino House / Tadao Ando Architect & Associates. Photograph by Kazunori Fujimoto

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The boxer-turned-urban-guerrilla who graduated into a Pritzker prize-winning architect is having a retrospective at National Art Center Tokyo.

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[...]Read More... from Tadao Ando’s first New York building brings tranquility and reflection

KOSHINO HOUSE DESIGN BY TADAO ANDO KOSHINO HOUSE DESIGN BY TADAO ANDO Tadao Ando’s design for the Koshino House features two parallel concrete rectangular confines. The forms are partially buried into the sloping ground of a national park and become a compositional addition to the landscape. Placed carefully as to not disrupt the pre-existing trees on the site, the structure responds to the adjacent ecosystem while the concrete forms address a more general nature through a playful manipulation of light. The northern volume consists of a two-storey height containing a double height living room, a kitchen and a dining room on the first floor with the master bedroom and a study on the second floor. The southern mass then consists of six linearly organized children’s bedrooms, a bathroom and a lobby. Connecting the two spaces is a below grade tunnel that lies beneath the exterior stairs of the courtyard. Ando used the space within the two rectangular prisms as a way to express the fundamental nature of the site. This space reveals a courtyard that drapes over and contours to the natural topography. A wide set of stairs follows the sloping land into the enclosed exterior space and allows the light that penetrates through the canopy of trees into the sunken courtyard. This self-governing space represents the fold of nature that has been bound by the conditioned structures and become synthetic. Narrow apertures have been punched through the façades adjacent to the exterior staircase and manipulate complex crossings of natural light and shadow into the interior spaces. The patterns provide the only amount of ornament to the simple rooms. Other slots are cut from various planes of the two modules to produce the same effect of complexity throughout the entire house. Four years after the original construction, Ando designed a new addition to the compound. Placed to the north of the existing structures, the new cave-like space rests within the upward sloping piece of land. The study features a bold curve in contradiction to the rectilinear organization, initiating a completely new rhythm. Separate from the original courtyard design, the space between the addition and the original mass allows nature to remove the forms from each other. A patch of grass weaves its way between the concrete structures, while the curved wall extends from the building to define the exterior space. Similar to the other boxes, a slice of the ceiling plane along the curved wall is removed to add that bit of complexity and ornamentation to the interior; however, the curved patterns of light greatly differ from the linear patterns in the former building. Architect: Tadao Ando Location: Ashiya, Hyogo, Japan Project Year: 1980-1984 References: Yukio Futagawa, WikiArchitectura Photographs: Gonzalo Perez, Hoiol, Kazunori Fujimoto, Mariana, Simone Catania http://www.archdaily.com/161522/ad-classics-koshino-house-tadao-ando/ B TADAO ANDO Tadao Ando, born in 1941 is one of the most renowned contemporary Japanese architects. Characteristics of his work include large expanses of unadorned architectural concrete walls combined with wooden or stone floors and large windows. Active natural elements, like sun, rain, and wind are a distinctive inclusion to his style. He has designed many notable buildings, including Row House in Sumiyoshi, Osaka, 1976, which gave him the Annual Prize of Architectural Institute of Japan in 1979, Church of the Light, Osaka, 1989, Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis, 2001, Armani Teatro, Milan, 2001, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 2002 and 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT in Tokyo, 2007. Among many awards he has received are; Gold Medal of Architecture, Academie d'Architecture (French Academy of Architecture) in 1989, The Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1995, Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects in 2002, and Gold Medal of Union Internationale des Architectes in 2005. Ando is an honorary member of the American Institute of Architects, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as the Royal Academy of Arts in London. He was also a visiting professor at Yale, Columbia, UC Barkley, and Harvard Universities. http://www.tadao-ando.com/bio_E.html

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Photographic Image 1 Source: Ando, Tadao, and Luca Molinari. 2009. Tadao Ando Museums. Milan: Skira. Photographic Image 2 Source: Ando, Tadao, and Luca Molinari. 2009. Tadao Ando Museums. Milan: Sk…

Hurriedly people were called, and there were far too many people who missed the function. Still, the auditorium was full and there were quite a few people who didnot get a place to sit. Tadao Ando was in India, more specifically in Mumbai, Vikhroli - Godrej Compound. This was not the first time he was here. As Ando stated, he came to India for 8 consecutive years after 1976 to study modern architects' work in India - works of Le Corbusier, Louis I Kahn, etc. In his present visit, he was taken for a helicopter ride over the left over mangroves of the city by the Godrejs. The anchor Parmesh Shahani informed that Tadao Ando was the only architect to have won four of the most coveted titles in architecture: The Pritzker, the Premium Imperiale, Gold Medal AIA and France. Ando spoke in Japanese, which was translated to us in English by a hurried translator. It was amusing to find that even the proper nouns that Ando took in Japanese, sounded Japanese! And I also wondered how the translator could pronounce the Japanese proper nouns in such good English! Ando presented some of his projects - two slides each. He didnot speak anything about his way of working. That is more evident in his monographs, authored by others! His monograph was on sale for Rs. 2500/- only. It sold like hot cakes. Apparently, Ando would personally sign them at the end for 20 minutes - but only the monograph, no signatures on diaries! As I entered the lobby, I saw a bunch of Japanese delegates: all looked Andos. Ando too looked like one of them as he stood on the stage - short, meek, but sharp and crisp. After all, he's a boxer; not an architect. Well that's what he confirmed - he never went to an architecture school. The interesting aspect, or view point that he brought to the presentation was that although Japan got multiple chances to re-organize itself, it never laid any focus on building green spaces. Japan depends heavily on other countries for natural resources. Showing the picture of a Japanese city, he claimed that Japan doesnot have enough green spaces, those which have almost become landmarks in other cities like New York (Central Park) or Mumbai (Sanjay Gandhi National Park). The other interesting thing he said was that buildings bring people together. He appeared to be a frantic builder. It seems he loved to build, propose buildings. This was very evident from his subsequent proposals after he built his first project at the Mount Rokko - which too was a part of his 'building desire'. As he went on to explain the Rokko development, he said that he took up the immediate next project on Rokko hesitatingly; and the next three to placate his urge to construct on the mountain. Thus, one could call the mountain and Mount Ando instead of Mount Rokko. None of the monographs mention this aspect of his building spree. A ritualistic aspect of all big architects is to have been selected to contribute for the Olympic / Commonwealth games in their countries. Ando is selected too. He would build the stadium for the Olympics 2020 in Japan. One can see the 4 projects Ando built on Mount Rokko in the above image Ando kept on iterating his concern or interest for the mangroves abruptly throughout his presentation. His idea was to make it an icon of the city. Needless to say, he imagined only through what he saw. The National Park or the Mithi was never a part of his public address. The helicopter would only help him to see from the top, the place where it is allowed to hover! Anyway, I think there is a formula for a successful presentation in a foreign city. I would try to spell it out here: 1. Absorb the feel of the city you visit. Summarize the experiences of the place quickly. These experiences have to be projected as the positive aspects of the place for the people. 2. Tell the people that they are lucky to be in the kind of place they are in. Tell them that you have visited 'n' number of places in their country and thus you know about their place. This way they like you. 3. Tell the people about the negative aspects of the place you live in. This way, you strengthen point no. 2 4. Green (understood as sustainable) is the mantra today. Tried and tested. No one would reject greenery around them. If there is nothing you can talk about, say that you are proponent of nature and trees. 5. Don't allow for questions or answers sessions. If there is one, and it goes in unexpected direction, make reference to point 1 and dissolve the conversation. Ando did all of the above. Business. In the end, he urged Godrejs to give him an opportunity to work with them. We heard that he would do a project for them in India! India remains the hot spot for most architects around the world today. Some time ago, I attended a lecture on "Urban Futures" hosted by Studio X (a Columbia University initiative) inviting SOM, HOK and Perkins and Eastman to present their work. It was a disastrous event. And needless to say, Mark Wigley - the dean of Columbia (?) used the 5 points above to establish his business hold in the city / country. Foreign architects do not understand much about the dynamics of our country and cities. They use most of us as their hands - as donkeys. We work for them because they are able to pay us a little more than what we would have otherwise earned. However, what we can definitely learn from them is professionalism. We fall in for them since they are able to give an image to our aspirations (physically). They are able to give a physical dimension to our desires. They have the technology and expertise to do so.

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