Tadao Ando Concrete Wall Section Kimbell Art Museum

The modern s fantastic collection lives beautifully in the space.

Tadao ando concrete wall section kimbell art museum. You can put great art on a concrete wall under various light conditions and it remains great art. Modern art museum of fort worth texas courtesy of the museum of modern art of fort worth texas i first visited the modern right after its tadao ando building opened in 2002 when i was an older. Tadao ando modern art museum fort worth. The modern art museum of fort worth exemplifies the work of japanese architect tadao ando through it s simple geometry incorporation of the natural environment and very minimal material.

In 1996 the trustees of the modern art museum of fort worth acquired an eleven acre site across the street from the kimbell and commissioned the japanese architect tadao ando to design a new. It s hard to imagine the daunting task of designing a new museum across from the kimbell but tadao ando rose to the challenge. The kimbell art museum the kimbell art museum was designed by american architect louis i. The ando museum is just across from the kahn kimbell which has an entrance that gives directly onto it.

That comes off the water through the glass that indicates a lack of boundary and can make its presence felt on the wall tadao ando the use of concrete indicates ando s passion in planes and sharp clean edges that the material allows. For the kimbell is part of the fort worth arts district three aligned museums the aforementioned modern art museum completed by ando in 2002 followed by the kimbell and then the amon carter museum built by philip johnson in 1961. Directly opposite the kimbell art museum designed. Built almost entirely underground the museum balances the contradictory qualities of being both non monumental but highly architectural.

Immense cantilevered cast concrete roofs shade the building s exterior and accommodate the introduction of natural light into the gallery spaces by supporting sophisticated systems of continuous linear skylights and clerestory windows. Using solely concrete the main material employed in ando s architecture steel glass and wood the design of the chichu art museum is reduced to the very minimum. The modern art museum of fort. The museum consists of six bays of 104 long concrete cycloid shells divided crosswise into three equal.

The desire to use diffused and reflected natural light within the gallery spaces was a major influence on the building s design.