Church of light

The boxer-turned-urban-guerrilla who graduated into a Pritzker prize-winning architect is having a retrospective at National Art Center Tokyo.

The docile appearance of materials, (concrete, metal, glass, and furniture) Enhanced by dramatic use of light allows a very intimate experiences of beauty. Tadao Ando successfully showed his mastery in this simple building achieving such a perfect unity of matter spirit and essence of...

A full-size model of Church of the Light is centre stage in a survey of Tadao Ando's career – although the architect says his latest projects are his best

Church of Light. And I

Architecture can go beyond playing it safe and aspire to evoke the best of us, making places that touch what can only be defined as Sacred.

Church Of Light, Ibaraki, Osaka Prefecture. Designed by Tadao Ando.

A full-size model of Church of the Light is centre stage in a survey of Tadao Ando's career – although the architect says his latest projects are his best

Gaps in the upside-down barrel-vaulted ceiling of this Japanese church by Takeshi Hosaka funnel slices of light into the concrete-lined hall