Tadao Ando is a renowned Japanese architect born in 1941 in Osaka. He is self-taught and was inspired by visiting temples, shrines, and tea houses in Kyoto and Nara. Ando believes that architecture should condense and purify light to reveal the essential spatial qualities. He uses strong concrete materials but aims to create soft textures and connect buildings to their natural environments. Ando's works leave a distinct stamp through his use of concrete, abstract yet integrated treatment of nature, and the philosophical perspectives behind each design.

1. Tadao AndoMy Inspiration

2. Tadao Ando’s ConceptProcess of design is not broken down into stages He believes that everything has to be done by hands, because he doesn’t believe in systematization and modernizationAndo looks at abstract spaces as not abstract spaces by searching on those spaces for the original form of space Born in 1941 in OsakaDid not go to university after high schoolWas self-educated as he grew up in a craftsman like environmentIn high school he discovered that he likes sketchAttended a drawing schoolHad a mission not only to pursue superficial comforts but to examine what has been discarded in the process of economic growth and seek what are essential to human dwellingThe selection of material in result is the purification of space into spatial essence

3. Concept Of DwellingThe way he connects his building with the natural environment

4. The form that he gives life to abstract spaces, the transformation of it

5. The strong material that he uses and yet give us that soft texture

6. The experience that each and everyone has had when ever passing through one of his work