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Tadao ando concrete wall.
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Thanks to this consequent language he has achieved independence from the bright.
The concept of the wall finds its full expression in tadao ando s later religious projects.
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.
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.
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.
Church of the light osaka credit.
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Ando s perfectly smooth exposed concrete walls are juxtaposed with raw steel handrails and a spiral stair ascending the atrium.
He cites the brutalist architect le corbusier an earlier concrete virtuoso as an influence.
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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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.
It exudes the austerity of a modern monastery a fortress or indeed one of the many museums ando has famously built elsewhere.
The cool grey concrete for walls ceilings and floors constructs an intense homogeneity in ando s architecture.