On our Inspo Board Today: Tadao Ando

On the Japanese architect Tadao Ando, John Morris Dixon in Progressive Architecture once wrote: “The geometry of Ando’s interior plans, typically involving rectangular systems cut through by curved or angled walls, can look at first glance rather arbitrary and abstract. What one finds in the actual buildings are spaces carefully adjusted to human occupancy.”

When viewing Ando's work, one thinks of meaningful contrast, or, contradictions that work. He brings together the unrelenting and the soft. He brings together cool spaces made from brutalist materials that somehow ground us in nature, with warm, perfectly-formed, pools of light and soft curves set against the modern.

He is called the 'master of light' in the architectural world for a reason. How could we not love him?

We are ever inspired by designs that touch on these concepts — those that bring together the modern and the warm — the functional and purpose built with the natural and calming. We think of Scandinavian, mid century modern, minimalism, japandi, and of course danish modern, when crafting our ceramic lighting to be placed or hung in your favorite room in your house or apartment.