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		"The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual -- when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions -- it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance." - Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times Magazine, Nov. 26, 1978

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Format: Paperback, 198 pages

Publisher: Dissertation.com

ISBN: 158112029X

In Brief
This thesis introduces Tadao Ando, a well-known Japanese architect, who is currently working on an emerging concept in the discourse of architecture, and is opening an approach of high sensibility (sensual, reflective, flexible, and complex, sensitively matching with every moment of life) and conceptualism (rational, logically approaching truth) that is widely considered one of the most important ways of thinking and designing architecture.

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This thesis introduces Tadao Ando, a well-known Japanese architect, who is currently working on an emerging concept in the discourse of architecture, and is opening an approach of high sensibility (sensual, reflective, flexible, and complex, sensitively matching with every moment of life) and conceptualism (rational, logically approaching truth) that is widely considered one of the most important ways of thinking and designing architecture.

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	Abstract	i
	Acknowledgments	iii
	Foreword	vi
Chapter I.	Introduction	1
1.	The process of Ando's architecture	1
2.	Visions and concepts	4
a.	Visions	4
b.	Concepts	6
c.	Summary	9
Chapter II.	Literature review	11
1.	General comments	11
2.	The meaning of life and distinctive architecture	12
3.	Intention, principle and concepts	13
4.	Architecture and Eastern-Western traditions	16
5.	Critics on the theme Geometry	19
a.	The transformation of space	21
b.	Form and structure	22
6.	Critics on the theme Nature	23
a.	Modulation of light	23
b.	Sense of urbanism and relationships-place attachment	23
7.	Critics on the theme Shintai	24
a.	Man's sensibility	24
b.	Daily life activities	24
Chapter III.	Japanese traditions	26
1.	Origins and Ando's theme nature, and shintai	27
a.	Origins and nature	27
b.	Origins and shintai	28
c.	Geographical landmarks	29
2.	Religious and philosophical encounters - the roots of Ando's architecture	32
a.	Religions	32
1.	The influence of Shintoism to Ando's theme nature	33
2.	Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism and Ando's themes	33
b.	Philosophies	35
1.	Buddhism as philosophy	35
2.	Yuasuo Yuasa's psychological philosophy	42
3.	Kurokawa and the philosophy of symbiosism	45
3.	Japanese culture and its relation to Ando's architectural sensibility	46
a.	Samurai	51
b.	Swordsmanship	51
c.	Satory	52
d.	Haiku	55
e.	Rikyu and The Art of Tea	56
f.	Love of nature	58
4.	Japanese characteristics and their relations to main themes of Ando	60
a.	Experience	60
b.	Exotic	61
c.	Exlectic	62
d.	Harmony	62
e.	Aesthetic	63
f.	Cultivation	65
1.	Self-trained attitude	66
2.	The philosophy of the body	68
5.	Most important issues	69
Chapter IV.	The interpretation of Ando's architecture and his main themes	71
Section 1	Tadao Ando's positions, theoretical concepts, philosophy, approaches	71
a.	Ando and the discourse	71
b.	Theoretical concepts	78
1.	Geometrical standard and poetical essences	78
2.	Concepts of nature	82
3.	Concepts of place (body and space)	83
c.	Ando's Philosophy and traditional inheritance	85
1.	Philosophical grounds: East--West encounter	85
2.	Philosophical applications	89
3.	Heir to tradition	95
d.	Ando's approaches	103
1.	Defining intentions of architecture	103
2.	Creating symbolic spaces and formal spatiality	104
3.	The betweeness, Middle-way, and non dualistic approach	102
4.	The infinity with oppositional dialogues (Shintai relations)	103
5.	Negation and abstraction	104
e.	Summary	108
Section 2	Themes	111
a.	Nature	113
1.	Element of nature	116
a.	Tangible nature--Preserving nature's generations	116
b.	Place and culture	116
c.	The negation of greenery	118
d.	Water: symbolic and experiential meanings	118
e.	Sky: symbolic and experiential meanings	119
f.	Landscape: Fukei--wind and sunlight	119
g.	Intangible nature	121
h.	Light and shadow	122
2.	Measures applied to create an architecture of nature	123
a.	Nature and everyday life, border and enclosed nature	123
b.	The modulation of light and shadow	126
3.	Summary	127
b.	Shintai	130
1.	Shintai relation as the union of spirit and body	130
2.	Shintai and the process of design	134
c.	Geometry	137
1.	Spatial organizational rules. The relation space-form	137
2.	The wall as a primordial material and spatial entity	144
3.	Spatial meanings of the walls	145
a.	The wall of acceptance and negation	145
b.	The mirror walls	146
c.	Directional walls	146
4.	Texture and translucence	147
5.	Labyrinths	147
6.	Intermediate space as the socialized space	148
7.	Original form	148
8.	Tension	149
9.	The mysterious space	150
10.	Pure geometrical and complex space	152
11.	Ma	153
12.	Wabi	154
13.	Oku	155
Chapter V.	Conclusion	161
1.	Visions	161
a.	What does architecture need to answer?	161
b.	End of Architecture	162
c.	Architecture and human spirit	163
d.	Preserving human needs	164
e.	Middle-way approach	164
2.	Grounds	166
a.	The Japanese origins, and religions	166
b.	Buddhist philosophy--logic and language	167
3.	Themes	170
a.	Nature	170
b.	Shintai	172
c.	Geometry	173
4.	The lesson of Tadao Ando's architecture	175
	Bibliography	178

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