1 Biobraphy BIOGRAPHY

2 Some clues to Andô, Tadao

understand his work.
Self-educated in architecture japanese architect . Between 1962 and
2.1 Humanity 1969 he travelled extensively, studying first-hand the architecture of Japan,
2.2 Emotion
2.3 Geometry Europe, America and Africa. In 1969 he founded his own practice in Osaka.
2.4 Concrete An inheritor of the Japanese anti-seismic reinforced-concrete tradition, Andô
2.5 Nature became one of the leading practitioners in this genre. Capable of using fair-
2.6 Light
faced, precision-cast reinforced-concrete walls to maximum effect, he
2.7 Order
2.8 Travels created a uniquely minimalist modern expression, yielding an architecture of
very firmly bounded domains. He spoke of using 'walls to defeat walls', by
which he meant deploying the orthogonal, strictly geometric volumes of his
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earlier work as a way of resisting the empirical, not to say random, chaos of
3.1 His Reaction
3.2 The Jury the average Japanese megalopolis.

To this end most of his early houses are highly introspective; notable
4 Interview examples include two houses in Sumiyoshi, Osaka: the award-winning,

5 Life review diminutive terraced Azuma House (1976) and the Glass Block Wall House
(1979), built for the Horiuchi family. The latter is a courtyard house that
gains light and views solely from its small internal atrium. The Koshino
House (1981), built in the pine-wooded, upper-class suburbs of Ashiya
(Hyôgo Prefecture), takes a more open courtyard form, but again, as in all of
Andô's subsequent work, its subtle beauty stems from the ever-changing
impact of natural light on its concrete surfaces. As in the in-situ concrete
Sôseikan tea house added to the Yamaguchi House, Takarazuka (Hyôgo
Prefecture), in 1982, Andô never alluded to the Japanese tradition directly
but always instead to the qualities of both half-muted and sharply contrasting
light in which this tradition is steeped.

Ando's later work opened up towards the surrounding landscape,

particularly where he worked on sites graced with spectacular views over
mountainous escarpments and the ocean. This more expansive spirit runs as
a continuous theme in his architecture after 1983, the year in which he
completed his stepped Rokko Housing, Kobe, reminiscent of Le Corbusier's
Roy et Rob project of 1946.
1 Biobraphy This new-found topographic poetic is patently evident in his Mt
Rokko Chapel (1986, see fig.), Kobe, and in the later Chapel-on-the-Water
and Chapel of Light (both completed between 1988 and 1990), Ibaraki; in
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understand his work. the latter a huge cruciform shape was cut out of the concrete wall behind the
altar so that the morning sun creates a cross of light.
2.1 Humanity
After completing more than 50 buildings in 15 years, Ando began to
2.2 Emotion
2.3 Geometry adopt a more public caste in his work, as is evident from his Children's
2.4 Concrete Museum (1990), Hyogo. At this juncture his strict geometry opened up a
2.5 Nature little, admitting cylindrical forms and diagonal episodes in conjunction with
2.6 Light
2.7 Order the highly contoured sites on which he worked. Like many other Japanese
2.8 Travels architects, Ando sought a synthesis between archaic values and modern
technology. To this end, eschewing fashionable form and ironic comment, he
aspired to an architecture that would be as symbolic and laconic as the
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3.1 His Reaction traditional Japanese haiku form in poetry.
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1 Biobraphy HUMANITY
"The goal of my architecture," he affirrms, "is to endow space with
2 Some clues to meaning by using the natural elements and varied aspects of everyday 1ife.
The forms l've designed have acquired meaning from their relationship to
understand his work. the elements of nature: light and air, indications of the passing of time and
the changes of season."
2.1 Humanity
2.2 Emotion Ando considers that, frequently hidebound by economic, technological and
2.3 Geometry legal strictures, architecture is built in an overly conservative way and
2.4 Concrete argues that it has abandoned the kind of space capable of inspiring the
spirit. For that reason he insists on personally attempting:
2.5 Nature
2.6 Light "to inlect his architecture with the strength to generate emotions, the
2.7 Order emotions man is capable of feeling within himself."
2.8 Travels
The architect thus speaks of the ambiguity, the suggestiveness, the
development ot architecture for managing to create spaces in whlch man,
feeling and memory come into play. He calls on spaces and volumes that
3 The Pritzker separate and connect at the same time. On elements that create anticlpation
3.1 His Reaction through Suggestion, like a window covered in a panel of shoji. Faced with
3.2 The Jury the Western house as castle, he speaks of Oriental society's communion
with nature and argues that architecture must form a continuum with said
nature:
4 Interview "the wall in the Japanese domestic tradition does not exist in real terms”

5 Life review He observes, adding at the same time that the proportions are always
relative to, and dependent on, the way that human body moves.
1 Biobraphy EMOTION
For Tadao Ando the act of thinking leads to a state of permanent awareness,
2 Some clues to and for that reason he defendes complementary contraditions when
desining:
understand his work.
“the convination of Western rationallity and Eastern lack of logic, the
2.1 Humanity mixture of abstract and concrete, the autonomy of construction founded on
2.2 Emotion the sympathy for the location”.
2.3 Geometry
2.4 Concrete He considers tha arquitecture must compren both abstraction and figuration
in a harmonous unity.Ando points out that, objectibely, a line drown by an
2.5 Nature arquitect can define a space and such is directly involved in people´s body
2.6 Light and spirit.
2.7 Order
2.8 Travels “I believe the architect has a duty to offer people places in wich they can
become aware of their own bodies, of their own emotions in the presence of
nature. My goal is to create places in which man can feel as confortable
and free as in nature itself”.
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1 Biobraphy GEOMETRY
Tadao Ando often uses the same geometric repertory to give shape to his
2 Some clues to buildings:
understand his work. “While I´m designing I elect to work with circles and squares as a basic
geometry for instigating the proces of change. This forms, complitely
2.1 Humanity abtract when aproximating to the site´s natural surroundings, take on the
2.2 Emotion sing of humanity. If a building doesn´t aproximate to the site won´t posses
2.3 Geometry tha sing” he says, but claims that it´s “the logic of the forms which has
2.4 Concrete greater force as a geometrical power”
2.5 Nature For this reason he likes to convert natural elements (water, wind, light,
2.6 Light sound ...) into abstract shapes:
2.7 Order
2.8 Travels “I work on the essence and try to condensate it to abstraction”

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1 Biobraphy CONCRETE
“I chose concrete as tha basic material for almost all my proyects, though
2 Some clues to not just for economic reasons: my main desire was to try and arrive at
spatial purity. The mental 5response and the spiritual quality must
understand his work. generate the architecture itself” argues Ando.

2.1 Humanity He enphasize this idea saying that:

2.2 Emotion
2.3 Geometry “details are visible sings of our architectural ideas while you are
2.4 Concrete negotiating the gap between the whole and the part. The mayority of details
emerge in the building process”
2.5 Nature
2.6 Light This way, working with extremely simple forms (circle and subdivisions of
2.7 Order the square) Ando manage to understand the equilibrium that must exist
2.8 Travels between the given form and the materials from where it´s built. For this
reasons he opts for the presence of three basic elements:

“genuin materials (concrete, unpainted wood), pure geometrical shapes,

3 The Pritzker and domenticated nature in the form of light, water, and air”
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1 Biobraphy NATURE

2 Some clues to “The life of human being does not consist in oposing himself to nature or in
understand his work. protecting himself against it, or even trying to subjugate it. Man´s goal is to
unite itnself with nature. Contrary to what happens in teh west, in Japan,
culture tends to dismantle the phisical barriers between hause and land,
2.1 Humanity between interior and exterior” says ando.
2.2 Emotion
2.3 Geometry He argues that Second World War radically transformed the relationship in
2.4 Concrete his country between architecture and nature:
2.5 Nature
“Japan exchanged an agrarian culture that was extremely close to land for
2.6 Light an urban way of life imported from the west.”
2.7 Order
2.8 Travels Tadao thinks that if an architect attempts to understan the landscape and
the forces intervening in it , the result of the desing is a building that creates
a dialog with the inmediate surraundings. When that happens, a person
knows he´s designed a building that couldn´t be in any other place.
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1 Biobraphy LIGHT

2 Some clues to All throught his carear Ando has look to ligth, not just as a physical
understand his work. presence but for it´s trascendental implications as web. He considers tha
light is the source of all being. Confronted with the surface of things, he
2.1 Humanity contour them with shadows and highlights, lends them deph. Things are
2.2 Emotion articulated in relation to their obscure and illuminated edges and attain their
2.3 Geometry qualities because of such relationships:
2.4 Concrete “The creation of space in architecture is simply the condensation and
2.5 Nature purification of the power of light”
2.6 Light
2.7 Order Ando thinks that artificial ligth lacks the strength of natural light, for that
2.8 Travels reason it renders the context less present and tends to homogenize interior
spaces:

“The roll of light is fundamental when creating forms in architecture”.

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1 Biobraphy ORDER
“Repose for the mind and a spiritual quality dictate the nature of the house.
2 Some clues to Domestic space must encourage relation. Mental peace is as important as
phyical rest, and that is why form and space must provide physical confort
understand his work. and mental peace”

2.1 Humanity
2.2 Emotion He sais. But he clarifies what might seam a contradition in his ideas:
2.3 Geometry
2.4 Concrete “I believe that austerity, like confort, forms part of life. In many of my house
both posibilities exist side by side... order is necesary to lend dignity to life .
2.5 Nature Order imposes restrictions, but olso permits the growth of great projects”
2.6 Light
2.7 Order Ando continúes:
2.8 Travels
“Such things as light and wind only have meaning when they are introduced
inside a house in a form cut off from the outside world. I create architectural
order on the basis of geometry: squares, circles, triangles and rectangles. I
3 The Pritzker try to use forces in the area where I am building, to restore the unity between
3.1 His Reaction house and nature (light and wind) that was lost in the process of
3.2 The Jury modernizing Japanese houses during the rapid growth of the fifties and
sixties.”

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1 Biobraphy TRAVELS
Ando made study trips to Europe and the United States in the sixties to view
2 Some clues to and analyze great buildings of western civilization, keeping a detailed sketch
understand his work. book which he does even to this day when he travels. In addition to Le
Corbusier, Ando mentions Mies van der Rohe, Alvar Aalto, Frank Lloyd
Wright and Louis Kahn of importance in his development. He described a
2.1 Humanity visit to Wright' original Imperial Hotel when he was only seventeen.
2.2 Emotion
2.3 Geometry “I had never heard of him, nor did I know anything about the building. But
2.4 Concrete the Imperial Hotel fascinated me and my curiosity took me inside. I
2.5 Nature remember a dark, narrow corridor with an extremely low ceiling leading
into a huge hall. It was like walking through a cave. I think Wright learned
2.6 Light the most important aspect of architecture, the treatment of space, from
2.7 Order Japanese architecture. When I visited Falling Water in Pennsylvania, I found
2.8 Travels that same sensibility of space. But there were the additional natural sounds
of nature that appealed to me.”

About that same time, Ando relates that he discovered a book about Le
3 The Pritzker Corbusier in a secondhand bookstore in Osaka. it took several weeks to save
3.1 His Reaction enough money to buy it. Once in his possession, Ando says:
3.2 The Jury
“I traced the drawings of his early period so many times that all the pages
turned black. In my mind, I quite often wonder how Le Corbusier would
4 Interview have thought about this project or that.”

When he visited Marseilles, Ando recalls visiting Le Corbusier's Unité

5 Life review d'Habitation, and being intrigued by the dynamic use of concrete. Although
1 Biobraphy Ando's Reaction To Being Named
1995 Laureate

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understand his work. Following is a translation of Ando's reaction when
notified that he had won the prize.
2.1 Humanity
2.2 Emotion
2.3 Geometry I am bewildered by the news that I have been selected as a
2.4 Concrete recipient of the 1995 Pritzker Architecture Prize. The faces of
2.5 Nature previous prize winners, beginning with Philip Johnson, keep
2.6 Light reappearing in my mind's eye, and I cannot help but wonder
2.7 Order
2.8 Travels about my future works. Since for me, making architecture is
the same as thinking, even more than before, I will have to
pose contemporary questions at the same time as reflecting
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upon history and speculating into the future. It is a time for
3.1 His Reaction
3.2 The Jury me to brace my own spirit so that I can actualize increasingly
responsible building projects. In the world of rapidly
transforming values, my hope is to help promote both an
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architecture and a city which embrace humanity with
5 Life review enduring care and love.
In the early morning of January 17, 1995, we were struck by
a horrible earthquake and the consequent disasters. It was
painful for us to see the devastation of the places close to our
heart. In spite of this disaster, it is our small comfort to find
that none of the buildings designed by Tadao Ando located in
Kobe and in the area close the fault zone were damaged.
They are all safe. We have over 30 buildings, including the
Water Temple in Awajishima Island (the center of the fault
zone), Rokko Housing, I and II, and a number of private
houses and school facilities in the Hansin area. These
buildings all survived and stand firmly.
1 Biobraphy Citation from the Jury

Tadao Ando is that rare architect who combines artistic and

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intellectual sensitivity in a single individual capable of
understand his work.
producing buildings, large and small, that both serve and
2.1 Humanity inspire . His powerful inner vision, ignores whatever
2.2 Emotion movements, schools or styles that might be current, creating
2.3 Geometry
2.4 Concrete buildings with form and composition related to the kind of
2.5 Nature life that will be lived there.
2.6 Light At an age when most architects are beginning to do their first
2.7 Order serious works, Ando has accomplished an extraordinary body
2.8 Travels
of work, primarily in his native Japan, that already sets him
apart. Working with smooth-as-silk concrete, Ando creates
3 The Pritzker spaces using walls which he defines as the most basic
3.1 His Reaction element of architecture, but also the most enriching.
3.2 The Jury
In spite of his consistent use of materials and the elements of
pillar, wall, and vault, his different combinations of these
4 Interview elements always prove exciting and dynamic. His design
concepts and materials have linked international Modernism
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to the Japanese tradition of aesthetics. His dedication and
understanding of the importance of craftsmanship have
earned him the appellation of builder as well as architect.
He is accomplishing his self-imposed mission to restore
the unity between house and nature. Using the most
basic geometric forms, he creates microcosms for the
individual with ever changing patterns of light. But far
more than achieving some abstract design concept, his
architecture is a reflection of a fundamental process of
building something for habitation.
1 Biobraphy Ando's architecture is an assemblage of artistically
composed surprises in space and form. There is never
a predictable moment as one moves through his
2 Some clues to
understand his work. buildings. He refuses to be bound by convention.
Originality is his medium and his personal view of the
2.1 Humanity world is his source of inspiration.
2.2 Emotion The Pritzker Architecture Prize honors Tadao Ando not
2.3 Geometry
2.4 Concrete only for works completed, but also for future projects
2.5 Nature that when realized, will most certainly further enrich the
2.6 Light art of architecture.
2.7 Order
2.8 Travels

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1 Biobraphy what is the best moment of the day?
no particular moment.
morning maybe good because of the feeling of beginning.
2 Some clues to what kind of music do you listen to at the moment?
understand his work. mostly classic.

2.1 Humanity what books do you have on your bedside table?

2.2 Emotion I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand
what's going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature.
2.3 Geometry I read a lot, but nothing comes to mind at the moment.
2.4 Concrete
2.5 Nature do you read architecture and design magazines?
2.6 Light I don't read them. just look at it.
2.7 Order
I assume you notice how women dress.
2.8 Travels do you have any preferences?
I don't look so closely at women's fashion, but from the 20th century on,
people have had the freedom to express themselves and their individualities,
3 The Pritzker and fashion is one of the most fundamental ways in which they do this,
3.1 His Reaction men and women are equally able to express themselves.
3.2 The Jury what kind of clothes do you avoid wearing?
nothing in particular.

4 Interview do you have any pets?

a dog named 'le corbusier'.
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where do you work on your designs and projects?
once I traveled a lot, to see the nature, the countryside and the cities,
with a sketchbook... a practice I continue today.
but plans actually I draw in my office.

who would you like to design something for?

I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.
I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources,
to move into the future.
although now we are more and more governed by the american way
of thinking, money, the economy...
I hope that now people will shift to a more european way (of thinking),
culture, individuality, and that people move towards new goals.
so for me to be able to contribute to this would be great.

do you discuss or exchange ideas with other architects?

not much.

describe your style, like a good friend of yours would describe it.
walls are the most basic elements of architecture,
and in all my works, light is an important factor.
the primary reason is to create a place for the individual,
a zone for oneself within society.
its very difficult to explain or describe my style, I hope the answer will
come out of the interview.
 what project has given you the most satisfaction?
1 Biobraphy as an architect you have to do your best work for any project,
but for me the most satisfying thing is when architecture can
do something to make people's lives better, to inspire them.

2 Some clues to do you try to find meeting points between asian and european cultures?
understand his work. I don't see them as opposites, the west and the east,
but for example western society seems to be centered on
2.1 Humanity american culture.
but I think it is important to understand that apart from that
2.2 Emotion main culture, there are so many other cultures,
2.3 Geometry and it is necessary to respect them all and their differences.
2.4 Concrete
2.5 Nature is there any architect from the past you admire?
2.6 Light of course I learned from history, from the renaissance,
from mies van der rohe, le corbusier, terragni... many architects.
2.7 Order
2.8 Travels what current architects do you appreciate?
like with the work of the past, as an architect you have to look around
and see what your contemporaries are creating,
3 The Pritzker for my contemporaries I have respect and interest.
3.1 His Reaction did you always want to be an architect?
3.2 The Jury right from the beginning yes, but in my life I have done many things,
at one time I was a boxer...
I was never a good student.
4 Interview I always preferred learning things on my own.

why are you here in milan today?

5 Life review because giorgio armani asked me to design a theater in milan for him
and today is the inauguration of the building.

on the news broadcast they said that italians are afraid of

unemployment, criminality and pollution.
what are you afraid of regarding the future ?
I'm afraid that people don't want the future to happen.
in order for people to want this, each person has to have goals in their life,
to feel proud.
work is one of the ways of achieving this.
unemployment is dangerous because then people don't use their resources.
each individual has to be able to use their abilities.
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1 Biobraphy

2 Some clues to 1941 Born in Osaka, Japan

1962-69 Self-educated in architectureTraveled in the United States, Europe and Africa
understand his work. 1969 Established Tadao Ando Architect & Associates

2.1 Humanity Awards

1979 Annual Prize, Architectural Institute of Japan: Row House, Sumiyoshi (Azuma House)
2.2 Emotion
1985 5th Alvar Aalto Medal, Finnish Association of Architects
2.3 Geometry 1989 Gold Medal, French Academy of Architecture
2.4 Concrete 1991 Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize, American Academy and Institute of Arts & Letters
2.5 Nature 1992 Carlsberg Architectural Prize, Denmark
1993 Award of Prizes of the Japan Art Academy
2.6 Light 1995 Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France Pritzker Architecture Prize
2.7 Order 1996 8th Premium Imperiale First “Frate Sole” International Prize for Sacred Architecture
2.8 Travels 1997 Royal Gold Medal, Royal Institute of British Architects Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des
. Lettres, France. Hyogo Prefecture Cultural Award
1998 6th Public Building Awards : Chikatsu-Asuka. Historical Museum, Osaka

3 The Pritzker Affiliations

3.1 His Reaction 1991 Honorary Fellow, American Institute of Architects

1993 Honorary Fellow, Royal Institute of British Architects
3.2 The Jury 1997 Honorary Member, German Architect Association (Bund Deutscher Architekten)
1998 Honorary Fellow, French Academy of Architecture. Honorary Fellow, Royal Incorporation of
. Architects in Scotland

4 Interview Academic Activities

1987 Yale University, Visiting Professor
5 Life review 1988 Columbia University, Visiting Professor
1990 Harvard University, Visiting Professor
1997 Tokyo University, Professor

Conferences
1982 International Architectural Conference, Charlottesville Conference “P3,” U.S.
1986 International Architectural Conference, Chicago Conference “P4,” U.S.
1991 Retransmission en direct pour le symposium international de l'amitie franco-japonaise, Kobe
1992 Anywhere Conference, Yufuin, Oita
1996 Japan-France Cultural Summit '96, Tokyo
1997 Japan-France Cultural Summit '97, Paris
1999 Les Architectes Japonais et le Musée, Louvre, Paris. Scientific Committee of the 20th UIA .
. Beijing '99 Congress

Selected Exhibitions
1991 Museum of Modern Art, New York
1993 Centre Georges Pompidou, ParisRoyal Institute of British Architects, London
1995 Basilica Palladiana, Venice
1996 6th Venice Biennale, Venice
1998 National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea; Seoul. Royal Academy of Arts, London
1999 Galerie Aedes East, Berlin
 Competitions
1990-91 The Art Museum in Stockholm, Sweden
1 Biobraphy 1990-91 The Reconstruction of JR (Japan Railway) Kyoto Station, Japan
1992 Nara City Hall, Japan
1994-95 Tate Gallery of Modern Art, London
1995 The National Museum of Korea
2 Some clues to 1996 The Church of the Year 2000, Vicariato di Roma, Italy
understand his work. 1997 Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, U.S. (Winning Idea)
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Hyogo, Japan (Winning Idea)

2.1 Humanity 1998 The New de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park, U.S.
1999 Manchester City Centre Piccadilly Gardens Regeneration, U.K. (Winning Idea). Nelson Atkins
2.2 Emotion . Museum, U.S. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Spain. Musée du Quai Branly, .
2.3 Geometry . France
2.4 Concrete 2000 Saint John's Abbey, Guest House, U.S. (Winning Idea)

2.5 Nature
Representative Works
2.6 Light 1976 Row House, Sumiyoshi, Osaka
2.7 Order 1981 Koshino House, Kobe, Hyogo
1983 Rokko Housing I, Kobe, Hyogo
2.8 Travels
1984 Time's I, Kyoto
1986 Chapel on Mt. Rokko, Kobe, Hyogo.Kidosaki House, Tokyo
1988 Church on the Water, Hokkaido
3 The Pritzker 1989 Church of the Light, Osaka. Children's Museum, Himeji, Hyogo
1991 Museum of Literature, Himeji, Hyogo. Water Temple, Awaji Island, Hyogo
3.1 His Reaction 1992 Japanese Pavilion, Expo '92, Seville, Spain. Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Naoshima,
3.2 The Jury . Kagawa
1993 Rokko Housing II, Kobe, Hyogo
1994 Chikatsu-Asuka Historical Museum, Osaka. Suntory Museum, Osaka
1995 Meditation Space, UNESCO, Paris
4 Interview 1996 Oyamazaki Villa Museum, Oyamazaki, Kyoto
1998 TOTO Seminar House, Awaji, Hyogo.Daylight Museum (Hiroki Oda Museum), Gamo-gun,
5 Life review 1999 Rokko Housing III, Kobe, Hyogo
2000 Awaji-Yumebutai (Awaji Island Project), Awaji, Hyogo

Project
1988-present Nakanoshima Project II (Urban Egg + Space Strata), Osaka

Monographs
1987 GA Architect 8: Tadao Ando, ADA Edita, Tokyo
1989 Tadao Ando: The Yale Studio & Current Works, Rizzoli International Publications, New York
1990 Architectural Monographs 14: Tadao Ando, Academy Editions, London/St.Martin's Press
1991 GA Details: Tadao Ando, ADA Edita, Tokyo
1993 GA Architect 12: Tadao Ando, ADA Edita, Tokyo
1994 Documenti di architettura Tadao Ando, Electa, Milan
199 Tadao Ando: Complete Works, Phaidon Press Limited, London
1996 Church on the Water, Church of the Light, Phaidon Press Limited, London
The Colours of Light, Phaidon Press Limited, London
1997 Tadao Ando, Taschen, CologneGA Details 2: Tadao Ando, ADA Edita, Tokyo
2000 Tadao Ando 1983-2000, El Croquis, Madrid. GA Architect 16: Tadao Ando, ADA Edita,