ITO HOUSE
CHURCH OF LIGHT
Tadao Ando employs light in the way of Le Corbusier's treatment of the Notre Dame Du Haute in Ronchamp. He, in a deliberate manner, eat out optically and consume the seams of concrete walls, deforming the visual impression of stable volumes, and making it seem that light is pouring through the opened cracks. Flowing over, around and through the slits left between intersecting planes, light has risen to equal terms with form, and is no longer subservient to the latter as merely an illuminating medium. Light is granted its own independent shapes.
In a number of recent buildings choreographed as deftly as an unfolding film or musical score, Ando has constructed elaborate variations on the old Buddhist death-regeneration sequences. As in the ancient Zen temples, these optical experiences are concentrated around important thresholds, as passage rites, especially along main entries and stairwells, and are arranged for both religious and everyday settings, perhaps in the case of the latter to reinvest the profane with the sacred, and the conscious with the mythic life of the psyche.
In a number of recent buildings choreographed as deftly as an unfolding film or musical score, Ando has constructed elaborate variations on the old Buddhist death-regeneration sequences. As in the ancient Zen temples, these optical experiences are concentrated around important thresholds, as passage rites, especially along main entries and stairwells, and are arranged for both religious and everyday settings, perhaps in the case of the latter to reinvest the profane with the sacred, and the conscious with the mythic life of the psyche.
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