T. ANDO COSMOS
Designer
Tadao AndoManufacture
VeniniCirca
2017
Description
The theme of the Cosmos vase series embodies the “Order of Space” by employing a simple geometry of a sphere subtracted from the center of a cube. Perpendicular divisions of the combined volume result in four separate parts. Aspherical shape emerges through the ‘nothingness’—the Buddhist concept that abounds in the contemporary architect’s structural designs—and the Cosmos appears suspended in time and space. Through the skilled craftsmanship of Venetian glassmakers, the three elements present a jewel-like sculpture. The viewer must imagine the intentionally missing piece of the composition to complete the order of the “COSMOS”.
Tadao Ando
Tadao Ando
Tadao Ando, the world-renowned self-taught architect, winner in 1995 of the Pritzker Prize, considered the Nobel Prize of architecture, received an honorary degree from the Faculty of Architecture of La Sapienza University of Rome on 22 April 2002. Tadao Ando attributes his learning to intense reading and a large number of trips to Europe and the United States, undertaken to study contemporary and historical architecture.
Born in Osaka in 1941, Tadao Ando realized his first project for family homes in 1972, appearing on the national scene in 1976 with the Azuma home projects in Osaka, winning the annual award assigned by the Architectural Institute of Japan.
Among his most important works are the Children’s Museum, the Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, the Suntory Museum, the Museum of Literature and the Forest of Tombs Museum in Kumamoto, the Church of the Light in Osaka, the Tomamu Water Chapel, the Temple on water in the Awajishima Islands, Japan, the Pulitzer Foundation, 2001, in the USA, the Japan Pavilion at Expo ‘92 in Seville. In Italy, he designed the Fabbrica building for Benetton in Treviso, the Giorgio Armani theatre in Milan, the new layout and maintenance of Palazzo Grassi in Venice, and the restoration project of the Punta della Dogana and of the little theatre in Palazzo Grassi.
Tadao Ando
Tadao Ando, the world-renowned self-taught architect, winner in 1995 of the Pritzker Prize, considered the Nobel Prize of architecture, received an honorary degree from the Faculty of Architecture of La Sapienza University of Rome on 22 April 2002. Tadao Ando attributes his learning to intense reading and a large number of trips to Europe and the United States, undertaken to study contemporary and historical architecture.
Born in Osaka in 1941, Tadao Ando realized his first project for family homes in 1972, appearing on the national scene in 1976 with the Azuma home projects in Osaka, winning the annual award assigned by the Architectural Institute of Japan.
Among his most important works are the Children’s Museum, the Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, the Suntory Museum, the Museum of Literature and the Forest of Tombs Museum in Kumamoto, the Church of the Light in Osaka, the Tomamu Water Chapel, the Temple on water in the Awajishima Islands, Japan, the Pulitzer Foundation, 2001, in the USA, the Japan Pavilion at Expo ‘92 in Seville. In Italy, he designed the Fabbrica building for Benetton in Treviso, the Giorgio Armani theatre in Milan, the new layout and maintenance of Palazzo Grassi in Venice, and the restoration project of the Punta della Dogana and of the little theatre in Palazzo Grassi.
