The Centre Pompidou is holding a major retrospective of the work of the Japanese architect Tadao Ando, a key figure in contemporary architecture and a previous winner of the prestigious Pritzker prize for architecture.
Image: Fragment of Picture of Project Nakanoshima II ( not realized), 1989, source @centrepompidou
The Centre Pompidou is holding a major retrospective of the work of the Japanese architect Tadao Ando, a key figure in contemporary architecture and a previous winner of the prestigious Pritzker prize for architecture.
Picture of Project Nakanoshima II ( not realized), 1989
Fragment of Picture of Project Nakanoshima II ( not realized), 1989, source @centrepompidou
Revolving around four main themes – the simplicity of space, the urban challenge, project genesis and dialogue with the past – the exhibition takes the visitor through the key principles behind Tadao Ando’s creations, such as his use of smooth concrete, the prominence given to simple geometric volumes, the incorporation of natural elements in his spatial arrangements and the importance he ascribes to the intensity of the physical experience generated by his architecture.
Church of the Light, Tadao Ando
Through the fifty major projects on show, illustrated via 180 drawings, 70 original plans and numerous slideshows, this retrospective charts the different periods of his career as an architect and highlights his major accomplishments, from the Azuma House in Sumiyoshi (1976) to the Bourse de Commerce (stock exchange) in Paris (Autumn 2019).
Tadao Ando Naoshima
«In a world where we really have to think in order to achieve practical architecture, I come back to the starting point of the circle, the square and the triangle.»
Tadao Ando
"The Challenge" Exhibition
10 October 2018 - 31 December 2018
from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Galerie 3 - Centre Pompidou, Paris
Anna Melnykova, "Palace of Labor (palats praci), architector I. Pretro, 1916", shot with analog Canon camera, 35 mm Fuji film in March 2022.
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