Tadao Ando's Elegant Simplicity

   By RICHARD LACAYO

A new building by Tadao Ando featuring a diagonal wall. (Richard Pare / Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute)

Let's say Frank Gehry represents one end of the architectural spectrum, the shiny, exuberant, walls-that-do-the-hula end. The man on the opposite side--the serene, economical, subdued side--would have to be Japanese architect Tadao Ando. If Gehry's signature form is a whiplash, Ando's is a broad, flat plane. Gehry's best-known materials are titanium and glowing steel. Ando's is pale gray concrete. >>> Read More