The cool grey concrete for walls ceilings and floors constructs an intense homogeneity in ando s architecture.
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Tadao ando and the concept of the wall with the designs of azuma house in 1979 and koshino house in 1980 one of the most important traits of the japanese architect s artistic philosophy of composition emerges that is the wall.
It exudes the austerity of a modern monastery a fortress or indeed one of the many museums ando has famously built elsewhere.
The concept of the wall finds its full expression in tadao ando s later religious projects.
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Seen from below where the dark stone base and wall is more prominent the blank concrete façade with its narrow vertical slits and pseudo openings resembles a cubic spyglass.
He cites the brutalist architect le corbusier an earlier concrete virtuoso as an influence.
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Ando s perfectly smooth exposed concrete walls are juxtaposed with raw steel handrails and a spiral stair ascending the atrium.
Tadao ando presented a cement box in the middle of a row of dilapidated wooden houses of which there are masses in the central areas of osaka and created a highly self sufficient living space within that box.
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Thanks to this consequent language he has achieved independence from the bright.