Tadao Ando

Japanese · born 1941

Self-taught Japanese architect working largely in exposed concrete. The Church of the Light in Ibaraki was completed in 1989.

architecture

Buildings

Read off the work below rather than asserted of the person: a building sits in a movement in a way a career does not.

The nearest thing in the studio — offered as a resemblance, not a lineage. Rendering a room in Warm minimalism is not building a Modernism.