A professional boxer, a self-taught architect and Pritzker prize winner, uses concrete, light, and ventilation as his major design tools. He learned a lot about architecture by travelling. He tries to inculcate the social demands of contemporary times at the same time preserving continuity with the past or with the cultural climate and traditional environment of a region. Ando’s poetic dimension of silence should be understood as an art of building that is outstanding in design, unified in concept and relevant to the future.