Archinect - News2024-05-23T11:01:41-04:00https://archinect.com/news/article/149980461/how-tadao-ando-defines-his-own-home-for-the-spirit
How Tadao Ando defines his own "home for the spirit" Amelia Taylor-Hochberg2016-11-28T13:04:00-05:00>2021-08-17T20:54:19-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/c0/c08t69t6s9d2elll.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>This should be Ando’s residence. But there is no bedroom. Or food in the kitchen. And a couple of years ago he told Japanese TV that he lives in a normal apartment. This is Tadao Ando’s house, but is it his home? [...]
Ando built it to be his home in 1995 but never moved in. You can find it listed in architecture books as the “Atelier” or “Studio Annexe”. “I wanted a fun place to live, a place where every day is thrilling, a quiet place to think,” he says.</p></em><br /><br /><p>Ando, on the ultimate home, to Robin Harding for the <em>Financial Times</em>: </p>
<p><em>“Please write this,” he says. “A church is a home town for the spirit, a place where the spirit lives. Big or small. It’s the home of the spirit so when you go there you feel relief. You feel the spirit’s richness. I have to think whether I have made a home for the spirit or not. A house is the same. It must be a home for that person’s spirit."</em></p>
<p>More Ando on Archinect:</p>
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