Japanese Architecture and Nature

Japanese Architect, Tadao Ando is featured in the CNN series, Talk Asia. His designs have stood the test of time as 35 of his buildings were still standing despite the devastating earthquake that took place in Kobe in 1995. This segment features his designs, "The Church of Light" and other designs in Venice, Italy and Dallas/Forth Worth, Texas.



In this segment, Tadao Ando talks about his previous career as a boxer, his informal education in architecture, and winning The Pritzker Architecture Prize.



In this segment, Tadao Ando talks about nature and architecture, nature preservation the US's role in the environmental situation, the Kyoto Protocol, 2016 Tokyo Olympics project, presentations at Yale and Harvard and the computer era in architecture.


Video was recorded while living in Japan in 2006.

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