The life & Designs of tadao Ando

Tadao Ando of Osaka, Japan is a man who is at the pinnacle of success in his own country. In the last few years, he has emerged as a cultural force in the world as well. In 1995, the Pritzker Architecture Prize was formally presented to him within the walls of the Grand Trianon Palace at Versailles, France. There is little doubt that anyone in the world of architecture will not be aware of his work. That work, primarily in reinforced concrete, defines spaces in unique new ways that allow constantly changing patterns of light and wind in all his structures, from homes and apartment complexes to places of worship, public museums and commercial shopping centers. - Prtizker Website
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[@jadenkarim5367]

Fun fact: Tadao Ando has no professional architecture degree, he is a self-taught architect. There are more few famous architects who never had an architecture degree but still lead in the architectural world.

[@YouAni-Me]

He is currently the only "autodidact" architect in practice and a really reknowned one at that.

[@blessedarch]

“I don’t believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind.” - Tadao Ando

[@ritishbhowmik8176]

Being a architecture student, those great people's life and work motivate me a lot and how you are portraying is also great way to know about them rather than reading just biography

[@blessedarch]

So glad you enjoyed it 😃

[@OASISwithTRIP]

I'm ANDO lover too☺❤️

[@Ignacio_Martinez_Arguello]

Ritish, if I may. As an Interior Designer, I would give you the advice to NEVER forget about the user. These great architects work on massive projects that don´t always translate to residential. People, in reality, aren´t minimalist... they are either posers or poor, but if you ever get the chance, don´t build houses that are just pretty to be left untouched.

[@andreschopman9981]

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[@YouAni-Me]

One of the best learning image for any aspiring architects is appreciating the greatness of the greats who had and still reshaping our architecture environment. And a place, city or country that fully appreciates and understands what architecture really means, how it integrates with our life and surroundings and not limited and bounded by strictly crafted but fragmented, outdated and stagnant building codes that were written by non-architects who has no full understanding of the profession itself. I too was an aspiring architect (before I moved to the place where I am currently at) but I live in a place where every design should revolve around the city's building, including it's materials, assembly and most of it's design. I have lost my passion for architecture since I started to witness how everything works on this place I currently reside and practice, the design freedom is completely controlled and almost gone which is really un-inspiring. Please, if you are looking to make it big in the industry, avoid Canada at all cost.

[@saranbhatia8809]

Simplicity and purity combined with the play of daylight make it all a enriching conscious experience is what architecture is all about!

[@SanT6]

As an architecture student who loves boxing and is split between the two careers, I see Tadao Ando as an absolute inspiration. Excellent video.

[@nashrisafmr.5334]

What a stunning story telling, can't wait to see your another sotry telling videos! Blessed🙏

[@blessedarch]

So glad you enjoyed it ❤️

[@thesmoove888]

This was such a beautiful video. Thank you for this. I've more recently started to develop a love of architecture and Tadao's work has just amazed me. However, you brought to life his architecture and the meaning behind his work which makes it just that much better.

[@felipepuerto4713]

Thank you!!!! Tadao Ando is my hero.

[@shadytree2867]

Whenever in the course of studying architecture, I feel this is too tough and get demotivated, watching your videos and gaining inspiration from great architectures reminds me of what it is I am working to learn and contribute to... Really brilliant work 👏 thanks a lot for sharing!

[@blessedarch]

So glad to hear that ❤️

[@tisann8099]

true true

[@OASISwithTRIP]

I'm ANDO lover too☺❤️❤️❤️

[@baptistejamaigne5649]

I am in the exact same situation right now. Really motivational, it will help me greatly in my project this year. Thanks !

[@hakancullberg8787]

Tadao Ando is my inspiration as well as Louis Kahn! The two masters of architecture!

[@chucknyc123]

And how lucky am I to live in Fort Worth, Texas, where Tadao Ando’s Modern Art Museum lives across Van Cliburn Way from Louis Kahn’s magnificent Kimbell Art Museum? If you haven’t seen the documentary My Architect, by Louis Kahn’s son, you are in for a treat - and many surprises.

[@abinov8566]

Thank you ❤️

[@sinyiechan5361]

architects are so inspiring, they always motivate me when I want to quit my work

[@lexaneli]

I learned about Ando when I went to Taiwan to study architecture and fell in love with his work. I admire his journey to be the Architect he is.

[@OASISwithTRIP]

I'm Japanese ANDO lover☺💖 This summer, I was trip for looking architect of ANDO's in JAPAN🇯🇵. I was so impressed😭😭😭❤️❤️ love ANDO🥺🥺💖💖💖

[@DarkCastleBoy]

This is beautiful as well as motivational as a civil engineer I am just mesmerized by his work 🧡

[@ritishbhowmik8176]

The intro♥️ Great..

[@garima_basnet]

This is so wholesome! Thank you so much for putting up such great content! 🙏👏👏👏

[@blessedarch]

Thank you, I am glad you liked it 😀

[@parapendejadas4913]

Amazing work man, I also love his career and you summarized very well. Congrats!

[@blessedarch]

Thank you 😃

[@faina7593]

Thank you so much for this ! Tadao Ando is my fav architect👌

[@blessedarch]

Glad you liked it 😃

[@racinggamerfd]

Excellent!

[@fezankhatri8564]

Thankyou very much for all the presentations, they helps a lot

[@blessedarch]

I am glad 😃

[@CraftyAtHome]

Wow! I think this is my favorite documentary video of yours yet. The editing is beautiful and you've encapsulated Tadao Ando's work so well in this video. You just keep getting better ❤

[@blessedarch]

Thank you so much ❤️

[@crlsortizmtz4624]

Really good!!!

[@yousseflahkim]

Thank you so much for such a great video on tadao ando's work and legacy. As for Zaha haddid, you made a great work ! keep doing it

[@blessedarch]

Thank you so much 😃

[@MrVorpalsword]

A very well put together mini-biography, telling me about his early-life better and quicker than I have seen before. Thank You C

[@blessedarch]

Thank you ❤️

[@saimafatema1269]

U simply give justice to sir Tadao Ando's work. 🙌🏼

[@suryakoushik3093]

very enriching experience just see you explanation of his works. thanks for all the effort you put in.

[@blessedarch]

So glad you enjoyed the video ❤️

[@christophermoody1448]

In terms of an architecture of silence, Peter Zumthor operated in the same way. Which would explain why the works of these architects are powerful. Thanks for sharing. Great video.

[@vonsassy]

Thanks for a great video. Ando is one of my most favorite architects! You captured the spirit of his work effortlessly.

[@blessedarch]

Thank you

[@windchime3622]

just found your videos, preparing for an exam in architecture, and I feel blessed, these are absolutely stunning and so entertaining, thank you!

[@blessedarch]

Glad you like them!

[@Luv-sic-]

well made! thank you so much!

[@blessedarch]

Thank you 😃

[@user-pd1nk5hk9b]

I found my favorite architect! Tadao Ando, I love his creation

[@kavilwrites]

Awesome 🎉👍🏻

[@blessedarch]

Thank you for watching Guys. Dont forget to give this video a thumbs up and to share this video. Also let me know your thoughts in the comments.

[@anjalikalla1802]

This video too is an art and you are the artist!✨💝

[@blessedarch]

Thank you so much ❤️

[@BATMAN-dl4jr]

More videos like this, they are awesome

[@blessedarch]

Many more to come :D

[@sachidanandas1026]

Top top top quality short documentary,blessed arch. Waiting for your upcoming videos.

[@blessedarch]

Thank you 😃

[@laskaralam9119]

Tadao Ando contributed an entire style and thought process in the world of Architecture. One of THE Architects of this century ⬜⬛

[@blessedarch]

True af ❤️

[@franckkabila2210]

I believe detail is the product in every project. This was really inspiring and made me better understand that every architect creates his own identity through his consideration and appreciation of details. Architecture is definitely a life learning process!!! Thank you for sharing this video.

[@blessedarch]

So glad you liked it ❤️

[@iafactorybrasil]

obrigado pelo seu canal. seu trabalho de propagar arquitetura é sensacional. ótima referência. um dos mestres sagrados. por mais que a tecnologia evolua, o arquiteto nunca será substituido pela IA.

[@asthabanstola1248]

very inspiring ando's work and your hardwork!

[@blessedarch]

Thank you so much!

[@esabamuattarun1883]

Your videos have those great combination of feelings and perception that creates an amazing view of what you are trying to protray. You have used graphics, transitions, effects and played with sound to create a perfect space to understand the value of the subject, which is i think a very important thing in the field of architecture too, creating a space working on all the elements in a way people percieve things from it. Kudos.

[@blessedarch]

Thank you so much

[@kaycheng8566]

Architecture is moving with time, I feel Ando is a popular architect in all the younger architects' world!

[@blessedarch]

I believe its the kind of architecture that will keep resonating with people for years to come.

[@jahnvidani9627]

Amazing Video!

[@blessedarch]

Thanks!

[@kibhattarai]

Great self taught architect.. I had a chance to meet him at his office in Osaka back in 2002. Also visited many of his architecture that time.

[@blessedarch]

How was he in person?

[@sabihatanveer8494]

Brilliantly executed

[@blessedarch]

Thank you much ❤️

[@nimitbhansali7090]

This video is mesmerizing. I see it every now and then. Whenever I feel hopeless about our profession, this inspires me. Thanks a lot Rushabh.

[@blessedarch]

❤️

[@woodymedia]

So fortunate to have his masterpiece in my backyard, Modern Museum of Fort Worth,tx

[@blessedarch]

😍

[@buntypatnaik984]

The best architecture channel of india..blessed arch

[@blessedarch]

❤️

[@GhostedStories]

Master!

[@chubplump8746]

Every night before going to sleep I often think did I do the right thing choosing architecture as my career makes me anxious and nervous as everyone around me ask is it worth it but people like you who put in so much time and knowledge for people like us out there and makes it accessible easily thanks alot for this I hope your channel grows more.(wish me luck tomorrow's gonna be my 1st day of college.

[@blessedarch]

I am so glad ❤️

[@varadchitnis1055]

Beautifully crafted content, best luck ...

[@blessedarch]

Thank you so much 😃

[@argeancomics3291]

Genius

[@joeschmoe1301]

Fun fact: Tadao Ando taught Pritzker Prize winning Architect, Lord Richard Roger's, how to use concrete in commercial buildings.

[@kharlyjeffcastillo7568]

, I'm enjoying your content.

[@blessedarch]

Thank you ❤️

[@BillyBlankenchip]

poems frozen in form, more like abstract structures that are nice to experience. The definition of a poem is grotesquely obscured when applied in this subjective sense.

[@pranjalikarpe3724]

Whooa..... Tht blowedddd me up🥺 U killed the vdeo mann!! The editing, ur narration, pictures whaat nt... I knw u hve put in all u gt fr this one, and it's phenomenal!!! Tadao ando hs basically impacted my sight on brutalist architecture(if am nt wrong) as there's jus concrete i see... I pretty much ws offended when learned abt him being selftaught and architect without a conventional License... As to why do we learn our heads off fr 5 frkng yrs😂 and ye to bhai khel gyaa🥲😂 Btt naaah, he's TADAO ANDO😌❤ Ahhhh, and yess... This helped me Nw i cn answer any que asked abt him in my entrances🥺❤ thenkyou!

[@blessedarch]

❤️

[@vant83]

Tadao Ando is basically my favorite architect of the last 50 years. His work is always meditative, simple and deep, but also lively and evoking.

[@user-wi6oj4ps5p]

From japan🇯🇵

[@nishantgyanani1005]

damn man. love your work....plz make a vedio on how u get that much of information hihi........

[@blessedarch]

Haha will surely think about making one

[@nishantgyanani1005]

@@blessedarch cool I will be waiting for that....

[@fezankhatri8564]

@@blessedarch i'll too, wait for that

[@rajsingharora26]

Finally a genuine Architecture Channel from India. I am not an architect just a Fan of the art Form.

[@blessedarch]

Glad you enjoyed the content 😀

[@maxmedina4243]

Yesssssssssssss

[@blessedarch]

❤️

[@carlosmante]

0:48 Pedro Ramírez Vázquez was a very Important American Architect too.

[@shannonbowman5990]

❤😊

[@useraccount9414]

4:40 Funny, he said in samurai architect documentary, that he met an national champion boxer and knew that he never had a chance in boxing =)))

[@CogitoErgoSumFortis]

Tadao Ando also found inspiration in Luis Barragán, the second Pritzker architect. The church of Light looks very similar to the window coverings from Barragán's own house on CDMX, built in the 1940s. Barragan was also a genius in using natural light and concrete construction, and you can see a lot of Barragán's ideas in Tadao's work, almost facsimile sometimes.

[@OASISwithTRIP]

I'm ANDO lover too☺❤️❤️❤️

[@atomaalatonal]

the three kings of my view of architecture: ando tadao, carlo scarpa and david chipperfield. there are a few others too, close to them.

[@herlittledove]

Tadao Ando actually tries to preserve as much of the nature where he builds a new building ... he wanted to build on a place in Germay, where there were cherry trees ... when was asked years later by the owner of this place, to design for it, he manged to save most of the trees (I think it was only 2, that had to becut) and mostly build around them ... his concrete actually has aspecial color, that only his concete has ... I know about this, cuz my professor for interios is friends with Tadao Ando Another architect I really apreciate is Shigeru Ban. Did You do a video about him?

[@blessedarch]

Ohh yess his deep respect for nature and the way he designs with it is amazing. And for shigeru ban, he is another architect I admire. I haven't made a documentary on him yet but it will come up very soon :D

[@herlittledove]

@@blessedarch great :)

[@shahraam700]

Well done Rishabh! What is the font used in the video? Helvetica?

[@blessedarch]

Haha thank you. The font is montserrat

[@shalakakhandagale]

5:32 Night classes?? It's a pic of worship in a church right? 😂 Anyways amazing information.. really inspired me..

[@kiranshaji3330]

Nice video Blessed arch. But pronunciation of Tadao is crazy. Please look into it.

[@LiquidArtEnergyProductions]

The perfect example of why art does not come form 'education' but from inner artistic expression! PLANET "Z" Zenkiki (mother of child art prodigy ZENCASSO)

[@kirtfabrero7192]

One of my favorite Japanese architect.

[@abbasramadan468]

I am taking him a case study in my thesis.

[@blessedarch]

What are you designing?

[@abbasramadan468]

@@blessedarch there's a detention center in my village, mostly distroyed, where people were imprisoned and tortured by the Israeli army. I am working on conserving and reviving its memory through a memorial museum, where architecture light, and space are the main artifacts.

[@blessedarch]

That is amazing and yes studying Tadao's work will be perfect for that. And in a way it will be a great ode to him as well, he started his own career by studying and observing the designs of architects that he loved.

[@abbasramadan468]

@@blessedarch i just finished my thesis project, i was very inspired by Ando's philosophy of silence and nothingness. If you're interested I can share it with you. ❤️

[@harperwelch5147]

20th and 21st Centuries!

[@davidsteagall9147]

How do you just open a business and start building houses

[@user-sr2yk2vi3v]

I'm japanese but i watch this english video which introduce japanese

[@luisgalleguillos4868]

Walls like pirámids

[@yokosomike]

My wife and I were married at Church on the Water.

[@blessedarch]

Woah that sounds amazing. How was the experience?

[@CaboLabsHealthInformatics]

Really cold, must be like living in jail. Not sure who can find a link with nature or with oneself by living on those houses.

[@likha360]

3:15 Tadao Ando Is Satoshi Nakamoto 🤣

[@blessedarch]

😂

[@djcb4190]

It is not mine anymore.

[@avinashkarthikeyan75]

First of all tadao ando is boxer

[@bitmonki]

good to see they used bitcoin in his childhood to save for books. Maybe he's friend with Satoshi !

[@blessedarch]

XD I was waiting for somebody to point this out

[@vincentkc6033]

The time for egoistic self-obsessed star architect has passed.