Tadao Ando is a contemporary national treasure architect. It is one of the Japanese business cards.
The first story: morning glory of Morinorich
Mori Noriky planted a lot of morning glory in his tea garden. In spring, the yard was full of flowers, which was very spectacular, and everyone who had seen it rushed to tell stories. Toyotomi Hideyoshi heard about it and wanted to see it. Sennoriki decided to hold a special tea party for this purpose.
In the morning, Hideyoshi came to Li Xiu's home with great expectation, but there were no flowers in the yard-all the flowers were cut off. Soo-Ji was furious: Li Xiu had the nerve to know that I came to see flowers, but I ruined them all!
At this time, Hugh came out to meet him with a calm face. Xiuji is half angry and half suspicious, so let's follow Li Xiujin into the teahouse. Disembarking, at the moment of entering the door, Xiuji was shocked: in the quiet teahouse, only one morning glory stood out! -the flowers in the yard are really gone, but there is a white morning glory in the vase in the teahouse. The flower stood there alone, too beautiful to even look straight in the eye.
The second story: Tadao Ando's head of the giant Buddha
There is a cemetery in Sapporo, Hokkaido, which has a history of 30 years. It is both a cemetery and a park. Among them is a giant Buddha, which is13.5m high and was built 15 years ago. Because of its large scale, the cemetery has been looking for suitable resettlement methods.
To this end, they asked Tadao Ando to design the Giant Buddha Hall, which opened in 20 13 and lasted for three years, and opened to the public in 20 16.
Shocked the world.
Different from "building a magnificent building to house the Buddha statue" in the past, Ando buried the giant Buddha underground.
Overlooking is like this:
It's amazing, but it's not that shocking, is it
It's a little strange.
However, if you go through a 40-meter-long underground tunnel first ...
Come to the foot of Buddha. ...
look up ...
How do you feel?
Or in spring, when lavender fields are in full bloom. ...
If it snows in winter ...
Perhaps this is the incarnation of the "Buddha" in the designer's mind in the world.
Opinion? main points
Putting the two stories together can illustrate the problem. At this time, you should learn from others and smile. However, without Buddhism, I can't avoid customs, and finally I can't help but gild the lily:
First, the morning glory and the head of the giant Buddha are almost identical in aesthetic inclination, understanding of "force", handling techniques and expressions!
It can be seen that from Li Xiu a thousand years ago to Ando today, the internal genes have not broken or changed, and the spiritual core is still full of motivation.
It can also be seen that Tadao Ando, as a famous architect in Japan today, can still find the unchangeable inheritance of cultural genes even if his mind is so extraordinary, and the rooted soil has a great influence on him. On the other hand, his perception and grasp of the essence of culture is also extremely accurate, and the result will inevitably produce "shocking" works.
Second, what kind of culture and aesthetics is this?
To this day, mourning and silence about things are still the key words of Japanese culture and aesthetics. Similarly, Junichiro Tanizaki used a book to elaborate and worship "the beauty of melancholy".
Japanese people are used to using darkness to show light, nothingness to highlight their true colors, and imperfection to reflect perfection. They always focus on one point, leaving a blank and leading to infinite possibilities. The expression of the Japanese always takes retreat as progress. On the surface, it is temperance and forbearance, but in fact, it is undercurrent and stronger than anyone else.
The Japanese are always obsessed with the unity of the two opposing extremes, always hovering on the critical line between the two opposing extremes, and enjoying the profound experience brought by the instantaneous extreme transformation. For the timing, we can accurately grasp the moment when we are ready to go, and the strength and beauty will gather at this time, which is very impactful. (In fact, this expression itself is a Japanese "beauty". )
Dry mountains and rivers, silver pagodas, flower arrangement of broken utensils, empty dark tea rooms, frogs jumping into ancient pools, cicadas singing into rock haiku and so on. , are different expressions of the same aesthetic core.
Tadao Ando's architectural design has always been devoted to exploring and deducing the change of light and shadow, the relationship between light and shade, and he is especially good at using darkness to contrast the charm of light and the significance of places. Obviously, it is another manifestation in the same strain as above, using modern materials.
Third, the earlier seeds of this culture came from Zen, from Tang and Song Dynasties, and from Han culture. The foundation of Japanese culture is the fusion of Confucian culture and Zen culture.
Mori no Rikyū' s Morning Glory and Tadao Ando's Giant Buddha both consciously and unconsciously follow the harmony between heaven, earth and people in time and space: grasping the weather-season and temperature; Geographical location-changes in position and angle; Harmony between people-tangible physical construction must be combined with intangible psychological construction, and through the dark tunnel or flowerless courtyard, the viewer will be psychologically prepared to be lowered or emptied in advance, and such intangible psychological considerations must be integrated into tangible physical design.
However, Japan's inheritance has always been a "mutation" inheritance, which "changed" its own unique genes in time. For example, if you look at torii, although its things are very similar to those of China, everyone who has seen it is sure that it must not belong to China. -this is the so-called "variation" rather than imitation. Similarly, Ando's works that shocked the world must not belong to other countries.
Without the development and "variation" in the middle, and without transforming the magnificent beauty of China into the gloomy beauty of Japan, it is impossible to produce the giant Buddha head of Ando, the church of light, the church of water and so on.