This is a small feature article for Ando, who is one of the most famous architects worldwide. The author is Richard Lacayo, Time’s senior critical writer. He is a professional writer in architecture and design.
In Ando’s story, the author compared the different architecture characters between Gehry and Ando .Then he use several of Ando’s masterpiece such as Church of the Light and Stone Hill Center, to further depict Ando’s architecture style and achievement. In his article, Ando’s masterpieces call “to mind the delicacy and simplicity of traditional Japanese architecture”.
Moreover, Richard’s collected a host of facts such as “Ando's Church of the Light” and “the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth” and portrayed the materials, symbolic as well as structures. This may gave rise to more conviction and intuition to readers.
Besides, Richard cited Mark Twain’s evaluation to rural England, which was “too absolutely beautiful to be left out of doors”, to describe Ando’s Stone Hill Center. This architecture, as Richard depicted in his article, broke the boundaries of space and set up the elegant interactions with nature. Hence, the narration of Mark Twain left a more lyric impression of this article.
However, Richard did not use any quotes in Ando’s article. There are no Ando’s direct quotes and other architects’ comments. This may lack of facts basis and objective opinions to some extent. However, as a general and summary article it can be accepted.
Link: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1816490,00.html
I found the Time's article as an interesting opinion piece that contrasting the power of simplicity in Ando's work with the bold architecture by Gehry, Hadid, and Libeskind.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I've been to one of Ando's buildings and it is amazing! With his signature bare concrete-slab and his space design, he creates this peaceful and elegant feel in the building.