LIST OF BUILDING PROJECTS

 Row Housing in Sumiyoshi ( Azuma house )

 Glass block house ( Ishihara house )
 Koshino house
 Nakayama house
 Kidosaki house
 I house
 Okamoto Housing project
 Art Gallery complex project
 Rokko housing 1
 Rokko housing 2
Time’s – 1
Time’s - 2
 Chapel on Mount Rokko
 Chapel on the water
 Theatre on the water
 Chapel with the light
 Atelier in Oyodo
TADAO ANDO
SUBMITTED BY - J Divya Sri – 1601009 Bhavitha – 1601006 Madhavi – 1601016 Priyanka - 1601026
ARCHITECT OF LIGHT
“Every room should have a window that
looks out to nature”

Born 13 September 1941 (age 77)
Minato-ku, Osaka, Japan
Nationality Japanese
Occupatio Architect
n and to embark on trips abroad to look at buildings.
Awards •Alvar Aalto Medal, 1985
•Carlsberg Architectural Prize, 1992
•Pritzker Prize, 1995
•RIBA Royal Gold Medal, 1997
•AIA Gold Medal, 2002
•Neutra Medal for Professional
Excellence, 201
EDUCATION
He did not go to university after finishing high school . The
modern system of architectural education is based on universities , but like
Adolf loos and Mies Vander rohe, he grew up in a craftsman like environment
and self educated .
It was in high school that he found he liked to sketch, and he
attended a drawing school. Many shrines, temples , residences, tea ceremony
rooms, gardens, and folk houses that rank as national treasures or important
cultural aspects are concentrated near Osaka and Ando visited them at
random.
He states that on these trips he acquired quite naturally the
spatial sensibility that characterises Japanese architecture . After high school,
he gained experience in number of architectural and interior design offices .
It was around this time, he began to think about architecture
PRACTICE
In 1969, at the age of 28, he established his own office in his
native Osaka . His design activities began in 1970, and he struggles to create
spaces people could live in , in an ever changing urban environment.
TADAO ANDO’S PROJECTS
 RESIDENTIAL PROJECTS

Row housing in Sumiyoshi Glass block house Koshino house Nakayama house Okamato Housing Project

I House

Kidosaki House Rokko Housing I Rokko housing II

 CHAPELS
COMMERCIAL PROJECTS

Chapel on Mount Rokko Chapel in the water

Art gallery complex

Theatre on the water

Chapel with the light Atelier in Oyodo
 HIS PHILOSOPHY
 The process of design is not broken
down into stages “ My office rejects systematisation and modernisation and takes a
A clear visual and spatial concept craftsmanly approach to work, ie everything has to be done by
determines everything down to the final hand. I don’t want to do anything that I cant control directly.”
stage of design, and either he or a member
of his staff spends time fixing that concept
into drawings

“ I am trying to create abstract spaces by eliminating humanity,

functionality, and any connection to the lifestyle. However, what I
am doing is searching for the original form of space, not abstract
space”

The Kansai region where Ando. was born

and raised is the birth place of Sukiya
culture. That fact was of great
significance to an architect like Ando
whose approach can be named as
CRITICAL REGIONALISM
 ROW HOUSE IN SUMIYOSHI ( AZUMA HOUSE ) – 1975-76

“ Instead of simply pursuing superficial superficial comforts, I want to re-examine what has
been discarded in the process of economic growth and seek after those things that are
essential to human dwelling”

GEOMETRY AND LIGHT

 ROKKO HOUSING I, ROKKO HOUSE, HYOGO (1978-83)

The site is right at the foot of Mount Rokko in Kobe on a south-

facing 60 degree slope.
From here there is panoramic view extending from Osaka bay
to the port of Kobe.
The building is composed of a group of
units, each measuring 5.8X4.8M .

In section , it follows the slope and in

plan, it is symmetrical
Each of the twenty units piled up on the face of the slope
has a different style of terrace and their views vary widely .
The intention was that life in these diverse units
would unfold around the terrace and in
communication with nature.
CHAPEL WITH THE LIGHT , IBARAKI , OSAKA ( 1987-89 )

Man and light encounter each other

directly. Everything that might obstruct
that might obstruct that direct
encounter has been eliminated.