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Tadao ando presented a cement box in the middle of a row of dilapidated wooden houses of which there are masses in the central areas of osaka and created a highly self sufficient living space within that box.
Tadao ando and the concept of the wall with the designs of azuma house in 1979 and koshino house in 1980 one of the most important traits of the japanese architect s artistic philosophy of composition emerges that is the wall.
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He cites the brutalist architect le corbusier an earlier concrete virtuoso as an influence.
Thanks to this consequent language he has achieved independence from the bright.
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Sitting right on the beach in malibu calif a distinctive architectural concrete home designed by pritzker prize winning japanese architect tadao ando is coming on the market for 75 million.
The concept of the wall finds its full expression in tadao ando s later religious projects.
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The cool grey concrete for walls ceilings and floors constructs an intense homogeneity in ando s architecture.
Ando is hardly the first architect to embrace concrete.
Carving a cruciform into a reinforced concrete wall evokes such a pure feeling of spirituality it seems ludicrous it hadn t been done before 1989.
It exudes the austerity of a modern monastery a fortress or indeed one of the many museums ando has famously built elsewhere.
Is there a project that you feel encapsulates the key principles you ve tried to explore throughout your career.
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Seen from below where the dark stone base and wall is more prominent the blank concrete façade with its narrow vertical slits and pseudo openings resembles a cubic spyglass.