CONTENTS
Abstract
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Chapter I. Introduction
1. The process of Ando's architecture:
2. Visions and concepts
a. Visions
b. Concepts
c. Summary
Chapter II. Literature review
1. General comments
2. The meaning of life and distinctive architecture
3. Intention, principle and concepts
4. Architecture and Eastern-Western traditions
5. Critics on the theme Geometry
a. The transformation of space
b. Form and structure
6. Critics on the theme Nature
a. Modulation of light
b. Sense of urbanism and relationships-place attachment
7. Critics on the theme Shintai
a. Man's sensibility
b. Daily life activities
Chapter III. Japanese traditions.
1. Origins and Ando's theme nature, and shintai.
a. Origins and nature
b. Origins and shintai
c. Geographical landmarks
2. Religious and philosophical encounters - the roots of Ando's architecture a. Religions
1. The influence of Shintoism to Ando's theme nature
2. Buddhism, Confucianism,Taoism and Ando's themes, b. Philosophies
1. Buddhism as philosophy.
2. Yuasuo Yuasa's psychological philosophy
3. Kurokawa and the philosophy of symbiosism
3. Japanese culture and its relation to Ando's architectural sensibility a. Samurai b. Swordsmanship.
L Satory 52
I. Haiku 55
i Rikyu and The Art of Tea. 56
Love of nature 58
nese characteristics and their relations to main themes of Ando 60
. Experience 60
. Exotic 6.1
Eclectic 62
, Harmony 62
Aesthetic 63
Cultivation. 65
1. Self-trained attitude 66
2. The philosophy of the body 68
important issues 69
IV. The interpretation of Ando's architecture and his main themes 71
I: Tadao Ando's positions, theoretical concepts,
lilosophy, approaches 71
Ando and the discourse 71.
Theoretical concepts 78
1. Geometrical standard and poetical essences 78
2. Concepts of nature 82
3. Concepts of place ( body and space) 83
Ando's Philosophy and traditional inheritance. 85
1. Philosophical grounds: East-West encounter 85
2. Philosophical applications 89
3. Heir to tradition 95
Ando's approaches 103
1. Defining intentions of architecture 103
2. Creating symbolic spaces and formal spatiality 104
3 The betweeness.Middle-way, and non dualistic approach 102
4. The infinity with oppositional dialogues (Shintai relations) 103
5. Negation and abstraction 104
Summary 108
Themes 111
Nature 113
1. Element of nature 116
•A. Tangible nature—Preserving nature's generations 11.6
b. Place and culture 116
c. The negation of greenery 118
d. Water: symbolic and experiential meanings 118
e. Sky: symbolic and experiential meanings 119
f. Landscape: Fukei--wind and sunlight 119
g. Intangible nature 121
h. Light and shadow 122
2. Measures applied to create an architecture of nature 123
a. Nature and everyday life, border and enclosed nature 123
b. The modulation of light and shadow 126
3. Summary 127
b. Shintai 130 .
1. Shintai relation as the union of spirit and body 130
2. Shintai and the process of design 134
c. Geometry 137
1. Spatial organizational rules. The relation space-form 137
2. The wall as a primordial material and spatial entity 144
3. Spatial meanings of the walls 145
a. The wall of acceptance and negation 145
b. The mirror walls 146
c. Directional walls 146
4. Texture and translucence 147
5. Labyrinths 147
6. Intermediate space as the socialized space 148
7. Original form 148
8. Tension 149
9. The mysterious space 150
10. Pure geometrical and complex space 152
11. Ma 153
12. Wabi 154
13. Oku 156.
Chapter V. Conclusion 161
1. Visions. 161
a. What does architecture need to answer? 161
b. End of Architecture 162
c. Architecture and human spirit
d. Preserving human needs 164
c. Middle-way approach 164
2. Grounds 161
a. The Japanese origins, and religions 161
b. Buddhist philosophy—logic and language 167
3. Themes 171
a. Nature 17l
b. Shintai 171
c. Geometry
4. The lesson of Tadao Ando's architecture 171
Bibliography 171