Modern to the Core: Challenged to create a building in which to showcase his own work, a celebrated Japanese architect constructs a series of unique spaces within the shell of a historic house.
A building within a building, the Ando Museum celebrates work on the Inland Sea island of Naoshima by one of Japan’s most influential architects. Designed by Tadao Ando himself, it looks like a 100-year-old wooden house from the outside. But within this modest residential exterior, Ando placed a contrasting interior defined by concrete and articulated by daylight–the pillars of his architecture. Commissioned by the Naoshima Fukutake Art Museum Foundation, the new museum is the Osaka designer’s ninth project on Naoshima.
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