Tadao Ando is a legend in the construction industry. When I was young, I worked as a carpenter and a truck driver. /kloc-entered the boxing world at the age of 0/7, and changed from a third-rate boxer to a "ghost teacher". He never received any architectural education, but made concrete into gold, creating a unique brand-new architectural style, and became the Pritzker Prize winner as early as 1995. He is called "Fair-faced Concrete Poet", and his architectural works are more recognizable than himself.
Tadao Ando is one of the most influential architects in the world. When he was young, he worked in carpentry and other industries. He has never been exposed to architectural education. At the age of 65,438+07, he entered the boxing world and then made a perfect counterattack. He became a world-famous ghost architect with his own unique architectural style. He became the Pritzker Prize winner in 1995.
"Challenge" and "Freedom"
"Challenge" and "freedom" are the eternal pursuits of Ando's life. The 80-year-old master Ando has produced nearly 200 works in his architectural design career for nearly 50 years, and he is still working hard every year to produce new works in the field of architecture. This year, China ushered in another challenge, Tadao Ando: Challenge.
It was just held on the Huangpu River in Shanghai last weekend, passing through Tokyo National New Art Museum, Pompidou Center in Paris and Armani Museum in Milan. This exhibition tour is the fourth stop in the world and the first exhibition in China. 1: 1 Restore the "Water Church" in Hokkaido; The central government recreates the "church of light", and the entrance is the long house where Kyrgyzstan lives; Tadao Ando's classic works and design manuscripts exhibition in recent 50 years; There are also a large number of exclusive movies, travel notes and photos; He also moved to the Giant Apple in Hyogo Prefectural Art Museum to show the classic architectural works of the masters and their ups and downs in a diversified and panoramic way. The grandeur and care of the exhibition can be called the level of an art museum, as if it had experienced a pilgrimage to the world.
Tadao Ando Shanghai Exhibition
If you want to know Tadao Ando, then this exhibition is an excellent opportunity. This is China's most comprehensive review of Tadao Ando's architectural design career so far, with an unprecedented scale. The exhibition covers the upper and lower floors of Fosun Art Center, including the prototype of space, the challenge of the city, the creation of landscape, the dialogue with history and the church of water. I suggest you take a brochure and go to the exhibition in the order of 2nd floor-3rd floor-1 floor. The biggest attraction of this exhibition is the restoration of the "Church of Water" for the first time. Stepping into it, it seems that you are really in the winter of Xizhangshan in Hokkaido. At the end, standing at the water's edge, the sacredness of the church and the coldness of fair-faced concrete maintain absolute restraint, allowing you to immerse yourself here all day.
In addition to reappearing representative buildings, the greatest significance of this exhibition is probably to show models and drawings representing "various challenges". What Ando wants everyone to find is that he also has many failures, but even so, he still lives seriously and meets the challenge with great expectation. For Tadao Ando, this exhibition is not only a review of his life, but also hopes that this exhibition can awaken the audience's idea of "from now on, don't set limits for yourself, surpass yourself and constantly challenge".
Address: Shanghai Fosun Art Center, No.600 Dong Er Road, Zhongshan, Huangpu District.
Exhibition period: 202 1.03. 19-06.06 (closed on Monday)
Note: From March 30th, Shunde and Art Museum will hold "Beyond" exhibition.
The role of each classic: the dialogue between light and nature, religious architecture
Tadao Ando's best works are definitely not his commercial works, but buildings with strong religious significance. Ando, who doesn't believe in religion, can always make his religious buildings become enduring masterpieces with his unconstrained creativity. The most classic "Church Trilogy" has become the only place for Ando fans to make a pilgrimage.
Church trilogy: the church of light, the masterpiece, carved a cross on the wall, let the sun paint, and created a building that talks with God. The degree of shock can only be truly realized by visiting the scene. The water church in Hokkaido, with its divinity and different scenery all year round, is the most desirable wedding hall for Japanese girls. The church of the wind at the top of Osaka Bay talks with the wind. The church is concave, with a main hall, a bell tower, a "windy corridor" and a wall with limited land, so that the religious atmosphere can spread in the natural environment.
In addition, Ando has many Buddhist architectural works. When he first designed the temple, his brain was wide open and he built it under a lotus pond. That temple is the "Shuiyutang" of Benfu Temple, which belongs to Shinkansen Imperial Palace, and it is an important temple built by Shinkansen in the late Heian period.
Tudafu
20 16, the world's amazing work "Giant Buddha". It is located in Mu Ye, a cemetery in Sapporo, Japan, with a height of 13.5 meters, but the owner of the cemetery found Tadao Ando, hoping to build it into an open park on the 30th anniversary of the cemetery.
Adhering to the concept of "symbiosis with nature", Tadao Ando spent three years building a hill around the giant Buddha, hiding most of the whole Buddha statue. There are 6.5438+0.5 million lavender plants planted outside the cemetery, showing different landscapes according to the changes of the four seasons. The flower season is coming, and the whole Buddha is covered with purple lavender. In winter, the giant Buddha is surrounded by vast white snow. The change of scenery makes tourists feel the change of seasons and the infinite cycle of life more personally.
Desert island reconstruction plan
In terms of public buildings, Tadao Ando's most famous design is the design and renovation of the world-famous Seto Naohashi Island in Japan. He turned an uninhabited island into a tourist attraction, and 2 million people make pilgrimages every year.
Tadao Ando's Underground Art Museum, Ando Museum and BenesseHouse, which integrates hotel and art, were all designed by Tadao Ando.
You can start a pilgrimage without going abroad. In the eyes of many people, art itself and art appreciation have thresholds. When you stand in front of the building designed by Tadao Ando, such shackles will be broken. Perhaps it is because of the non-professional background, from boxer to architect, from designing white to becoming famous in the world, and then to fighting the disease for several years.
Tadao Ando has created those "deviant" works that have been challenged again and again, which can always break the boundary between art and people and have the power to directly hit the soul. If you really want to know this master, the most intuitive thing is to come to the scene of the work and briefly introduce Tadao Ando's works in China when you can't go abroad for the time being.
Hangzhou big roof
Liangzhu Culture and Art Center is affectionately called "Big Roof" by local villagers. It is the only work of Tadao Ando in Hangzhou. It is a square box surrounded by fair-faced concrete walls that he is best at, mysterious and advanced. The most special is the cultural building surrounded by shallow water. 4,993 wooden lattice bookshelves extend from the ground to the ceiling, which were built by Liangzhu villagers. Each cell is filled with books donated by them, like a maze with temperature.
Every spring is the best time to come here! Outside the center is a long cherry blossom avenue. When cherry blossoms are in full bloom, various fairs or concerts will be held under the cherry trees, which is a real paradise.
Shunde he art museum
Shunde Hehe Art Museum, which took five years to build, just opened last year, making Shunde famous outside the food circle for the first time. Designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando, it has the only fair-faced concrete double helix atrium in the world, and it is also the largest single art museum building in China at present. With the change of light and shadow, the blending of traditional Lingnan culture and modern science and technology, and the collision between life and art, this "fair-faced concrete poet" once again used his unique architectural techniques.
On March 30th, Tadao Ando's first solo exhibition "Beyond: Tadao Ando's Artistic Life" was held here.
The exhibition is divided into three chapters: Beyond Art, Beyond Light and Beyond Tadao Ando, which reveals Tadao Ando's artistic thinking and creation from a brand-new perspective.
Tadao Ando's masterpiece of geo-art, the Dizhong Art Museum, is about to reappear, with the exhibition concept of "beyond what you see and discover".
Address: Shunde He Art Museum
Extension: 202 1.03.30-08.438+0
Shanghai poly theatre
The interlacing of three columns, the reflection of glass curtain wall, large-scale and large-scale clean water mold, etc. , all test the construction technology of building skin.
In the rational and functional urban planning, Tadao Ando broke the tradition with Shanghai Poly Theatre, opened a big hole in the rigorous urban map, and developed a large-scale architectural composition full of physical wisdom with tiny architectural techniques and wonderful architectural ideas. This is also the first theater in China with a waterscape theater.
Shanghai "Space of Light" Xinhua Bookstore &; Mingzhu art museum
Aurora Museum, Tadao Ando's first work in China.
Taichung Asia Modern Art Museum
The Asian Modern Art Museum is Tadao Ando's first architectural design work in Taiwan Province Province, and the first Tadao Ando Art Museum in the world campus.
It takes the regular triangle as the basic design element, conveying the balance between environment, architecture and people, dividing the plane of the regular triangle into three layers, and then stacking them into countless irregular triangles.
The most special thing is that the columns in the art museum are "crooked", and the space and curtain windows built by V-shaped steel frames are triangular, subverting the general vertical columns according to the geographical conditions of the earthquake zone.
Travel more, watch more exhibitions, walk more, and truly feel the beauty of this world from every artistic expression form such as architecture, music and drama.