Tadao Ando   Australia   Visitable until 28 March 2024 at the Queen Victoria Gardens is the tenth MPavilion, designed by Tadao Ando. Every year since 2014 the Naomi Milgrom Foundation has commissioned the building of a structure that is eventually transferred to a permanent

Tadao Ando   Australia   Tadao Ando will be raising MPavilion 2023 in Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Gardens for this summer. Every year since 2014, the Naomi Milgrom Foundation has commissioned an architect to design a structure for a five-month festival, the idea being to late

Tadao Ando   Japan   After a long and fruitful career, Tadao Ando decided that it was time for him to make an altruistic contribution to Osaka, the city where he was raised and developed as an architect. Ando wanted to pay tribute to the children of Osaka, the next gener

Tadao Ando   China   The client – a prominent businessman from Foshan – wished to contribute to the cultural scene of his home city, and decided to promote the construction of a museum for his personal collection, ranging from traditional Oriental art to modern art. Fro

Tadao Ando   Mexico   Located in A natural landscape, with the Pacific Ocean to the south and the mountains to the north, this residence-studio was designed for a Mexican artist who divides his time between New York and his home country. The first project decision was to

Tadao Ando   China   The project is an opera house in a cultural complex that is anticipated to shape the core of the cultural zone of Jiading New Town, a suburb which is developing rapidly based on its car industry, and that is 30 km northwest of Shanghai. Owing to the

Tadao Ando   Mexico   Located in the second largest industrial city in Mexico, the University of Monterrey is a private institution with more than 12,000 students. Its large campus was rounded off with this building, the RGS Center, designed for newly-established schools

Tadao Ando   France   The château La Coste Winery is located 15 kilometers north of the old town area of Aix-en-Provence in southern France. The project included the restructuring of the complex to transform it into a garden museum dotted with outdoor sculptures and pavil

Tadao Ando   Italy   After winning the international competition for the Fondation François Pinault pour l’Art Contemporain in Paris, this project had to be abandoned due to a series of problems. Shortly after, the studio received a new commission from the client in Veni

Tadao Ando   Japan   Tokyo Midtown is the result of a long redevelopment project on the former site of the Defense Ministry in the Roppongi district of Tokyo. Constructed in a public park in the northwest part of this recovered area, this gallery for exhibitions on the t

Tadao Ando   United States   This is an expansion project for the Clark Art Institute, founded in 1955 by Sterling and Francine Clark. The prominent American art research institute is known for its collection of 19th century impressionist painting. The 57 hectares of hilly prope

Tadao Ando   Italy   This detached dwelling is located amid the rich natural environment on the outskirts of Treviso, Italy. The commission included both site planning and layout, so the project allowed great flexibility and freedom. The only request presented by the cli

Tadao Ando   Japan   This is a memorial hall for writer Ryotaro Shiba, a figure representative of postwar Japan. The curved pavilion is on a site adjacent to the garden of the writer’s own residence, located in a quiet residential area on the outskirts of Osaka. The buil

Tadao Ando   United States   The Upper East Side in Manhattan is known since the early 20th century as the luxury residential area of culture. The project, located on the southeast corner of Lexington Avenue with Gramercy Park, remodels a penthouse gallery on the top floor of a

Tadao Ando   Germany   Located amid gently rolling hills in western Germany, this is a small museum for exhibiting the work of sculptor Wolfgang Kubach and his wife Anna Maria Kubach-Wilmsen, world-famous for their stone sculptures. A gabled-roof barn, built in the 18th ce

Tadao Ando   Japan   Ueno Park, a gift from the Imperial family to the city of Tokyo, is a large public space where several cultural institutions are located. One of them, the old Imperial Library, was transformed into a library for children. The old building has a pseud

Tadao Ando   Germany   On an island of a pond outside Düsseldorf, the German art collector Karl-Heinrich Müller founded a museum called Insel Hombroich: a large sculpture park of twenty hectares dotted with several exhibition pavilions designed by sculptor Erwin Heerich. Y

Tadao Ando   France   This space was designed as a commemorative project for the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of the UNESCO. The brief requested a ‘space of meditation’ for global peace, transcending all religions. The pavilion is located within the complex o

Tadao Ando   Italy   In spite of being an international fashion company, Benetton still preserves its original headquarters in Treviso, a small town in the northwest of Italy located little more than an hour by car from Venice. On this site the company commissioned the d

Tadao Ando   United States   The site is located in a quiet residential district close to the center of Chicago. Along this long, narrow north-south oriented site, the objective was to produce a comfortable and private residential space while developing an interaction with the n

Tadao Ando   Spain   Following the theme of the 1992 Expo in Seville, ‘The Age of Discovery,’ the pavilion was conceived as a highly refined place that had to unify the traditional culture of Japan and advanced technology and, furthermore, enhance interactions that excee

Tadao Ando   Japan   The site is located in a historical park established in a deep green valley in Osakaʼs Minamikawachi district, well known in Japan as an area containing a cluster of kofun (mounded tombs). The stone arrangements of more than a hundred tombs remain in

Tadao Ando   Japan   The temple of Water, the main one of Ninnaji Shingon, the oldest branch of tantric Buddhism in Japan, rests on a hill with views over Osaka Bay. The project proposes a sensory experience, a shift from the ordinary world to the sacred space. The appro

Toilets are a symbol of Japan's world-renowned hospitality culture. With the Tokyo Toilet Project, public toilets have been redesigned in 17 locations throughout Shibuya with the help of 16 creators invited from around the world created by such world

Nippon.com   Hashino Yukinori   Since 2020, the Tokyo Toilet Project has drawn attention with its designer restrooms in Shibuya created by such world-renowned figures as Ban Shigeru, Kuma Kengo, and Andō Tadao. In May, the buzz spread abroad with acclaimed German director Wim Wende

Former boxer and a self-taught architect, Tadao Ando (Osaka, Japan, 1941) is considered to be one of the masters of contemporary architecture. Monumental, abstract, and essential, his extensive oeuvre – with over three hundred completed buildings – i

Kenneth Frampton   Material austerity, importance of light, and connection with nature are key aspects of the existentialist work of the Japanese master.  

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Tadao Ando’s perfection is painful. His concrete constructions, austere and naked like luminous cells, attain such geometric and material precision as to hurt the senses with the cold cutting edge of their inhumane exactitude, and the excessive and e

The Guardian   Tadao Ando    The first time I became aware of modernism was through the work of Le Corbusier. I first laid my eyes on his monograph in the art section of a secondhand bookstore. It was too expensive to buy right away, so I saved my money and bought it a month lat

Empty the building, leave its sculptural brick enclosure exactly the way it is, and implant in it a massive heart of concrete. This was the strategy followed by Tadao Ando when he transformed an old residential block in the city of Chicago into the n

Marta Peña   This aptly titled monograph produced by the Croatian publisher Oris presents 22 works that Tadao Ando has completed in the past 15 years. Dualities – West and East, inside and outside, nature and geometry, abstraction and experimentation, history and

The Clark Institute harbors one of the most important private art collections in the United States, but few people know that it has prosaic origins, as so many fortunes in fact do. When, after wandering in the Far West, Robert Sterling Clark moved to

Edgar González   Continuing the saga of the most prolific architects of recent times, the editor of the Architecture Now! series, Philip Jodidio, has now published a monograph on Zaha Hadid (Baghdad, 1950) that updates one of 2009 and is to date the most ambitious an

Lys Villalba   La vivienda y los pequeños edificios suelen servir como termómetro con el que medir los nuevos avances en la práctica arquitectónica de un país. Con este planteamiento arranca el volumen que la editorial suiza Birkhäuser dedica a pequeñas casas const

Pablo del Ser   La editorial Taschen nos tiene acostumbrados a libros de dimensiones descomunales, más aptos para el deleite con sus enormes fotografías y el estudio de sus planos en una mesa de trabajo que para su lectura pausada, algo para lo que, por otro lado, n

Pablo del Ser   Continuando la veterana colección Documenti di architettura, la Editorial Electa nos obsequia en su volumen 183 con otra cuidada monografía de un arquitecto universal. Se trata en este caso del segundo volumen de las obras completas del japonés Tadao

El encuentro en 1953 de Willi Fehlbaum, propietario de una tienda de muebles, con las sillas de contrachapado de los Eames fue el inicio del ‘proyecto Vitra’. Desde entonces, esta empresa familiar, dirigida por Rolf Fehlbaum, ha ido incorporando a lo

La multinacional Novartis, dedicada a la industria farmacéutica y la biotecnología, conserva en el área industrial de St. Johann, junto a la frontera francesa, el edificio original de 1939 donde estuvieron las oficinas centrales. A su alrededor y sig

Jorge Gorostiza   No es éste el lugar para glosar la labor fundamental que está realizando la Fundación Caja de Arquitectos, tanto con sus publicaciones como con la edición de películas en su colección Arquia/documental; las correspondientes a los números 13 y 14 tien

Félix Solaguren-Beascoa   Con motivo del nonagésimo aniversario del arquitecto Jørn Utzon, nacido en Copenhague el 9 de abril de 1918, acaban de aparecer dos nuevos volúmenes: Sketches. A Tribute to Jørn Utzon, de Arkitektens Forlag y la monografía titulada Kuwait National As

François Chaslin   A principios de mayo del año pasado, el anuncio de la marcha de la colección de arte de François Pinault a Venecia provocó en Francia una grave crisis. Amenos de tres semanas del referéndum sobre la Constitución Europea, que sería rechazada en perjui

Adela García-Herrera   Los grandes arquitectos están a veces a merced de las grandes fortunas. Hace algo más de un lustro, Tadao Ando ganó un concurso internacional para diseñar la sede de una fundación que albergaría las 2.500 obras de arte que posee el magnate François P

Tadao Ando  The influence that the Japanese architect Tadao Ando (Osaka, 1941) has had on several generations of architects has been acknowledged through the award that the International Union of Architects gives every three years. Among the fundame

Sonia Olza   De ‘La catástrofe del deseo arquitectónico’, a ‘Arquitectura derrotada’, los títulos de los últimos escritos de Kengo Kuma evidencian las dudas que han acompañado a este prolífico arquitecto, profesor y crítico japonés a lo largo de su carrera. Forma

Adela García-Herrera   La editorial británica Phaidon se ha establecido en España, concretamente en Barcelona, y como tarjeta de presentación ha publicado en castellano un primoroso librito que reúne imágenes de las obras del japonés Tadao Ando tomadas durante una década p

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The McDonaldizacion of the world does not exclude cultivated architecture, as the work of Venturi shows well. Together with Scott Brown, he has taught us to look at Las Vegas, Disney or Atlantic City in a different way, and his scholarly populism has

Tadao Ando’s Recent Works

Francesco Dal Co   Milan  2010  
Mondadori Electa   - 1098 Pages 

Paris  2006  
Galerie Patrick Seguin Edition Enrico Navarra   - 511 Pages 

Los colores de la luz

Cambridge (Mass)  2002  
MIT Press   - 428 Pages 

Rax Rinnekangas   Barcelona  2010  
Fundación Caja de Arquitectos