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SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Tadao Ando is a Japanese architect who has mainly worked in and around his city of Osaka. He never studied for a degree in architecture. Instead, he taught himself about modern architecture by visiting buildings and reading books.
Tadao Ando’s first projects were houses. In nineteen ninety-three, he won Japan’s Culture Design Prize for the Rokko housing project. These simple but striking concrete houses are built along the side of a hill overlooking Osaka Bay.
STEVE EMBER: Tadao Ando is known for using unfinished reinforced concrete as a building material. And he is known for making buildings with simple designs that are closely connected to the natural environment.
He says that when you create a building, you cannot simply put something new in a place. He says you have to understand what you see around you, what is on the land. He says you must use that knowledge along with modern thinking to plan a building design.
A room inside the Modern Art Museum in Fort Worth
SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Tadao Ando built the Church of Light in Osaka. This religious center is very simple in its design, but very beautiful. The main room is made of concrete. There is nothing on the walls except an opening in the concrete. The opening creates two bars of light in the form of a cross.
In two thousand two, his Modern Art Museum opened in Fort Worth, Texas. The building is so striking that you have to remind yourself to also look at the art. The concrete and glass museum is built next to a body of water, so it almost seems to float. The glass walls let natural light into the space while letting visitors look out across the water to see the city.
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