Tadao Ando, Architect and Light Art.

My work with daylight is inspired by the architecture of Tadao Ando. See Joost van Santen Daylight Art in Architecture.

	Naoshima Museum and Hotel. Naoshima, Kagawa Japan: Oval opening of the structure overlooking the sea.		Meditation Space, Unesco. Paris France. Ceiling.

As an architect, Ando is self-taught; he never studied at a university school of architecture. He is impressed by the effect of light filtering through the high windows into farmhouses in the snow north of Japan. The sharp contrast of light and shade in the streets of medieval Italian cities reignited this memory. Ando's work springs from the subconscious. At the intersection of light and silence we become aware of'nothingness', a void at the heart of things. One of the leading features of Ando's interiors is their profound emptiness. His architecture is using a simple geometry of cubes and cylinders, bare concrete walls, solids and voids, light and darkness. In his Church of the Light, Ibaraki, Osaka, 1987-89 glazed opennings at the points of intersection -- approximately the mid-point of the side wall and at the end wall nearest the entry -- provide light for the otherwise dark interior.

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Light Art integrated in Architecture	Amersfoort: Railway Station Emmen: Ordnance Survey Building Amsterdam: ING-bank Head Office Hilversum: Railway Station Den Haag: Palace of Justice Hillegom: Radiant light in church
Research and Experiments	Light Modules Images from Light Space
Light Sculptures	Ravensbrück Monument Four Light Sculptures Veldhoven: Landmark Sculptures
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