1 September 2025
photo by rory gardiner & felix mooneeran
“Each year, MPavilion commissions architects with a unique design language and social purpose and gives them complete freedom to realise their vision. I have long admired how Tadao Ando responds to and incorporates the particularity of a place into his design and his belief that architecture can shape a society.”
Naomi Milgrom AC, MPavilion founder and commissioner
A Self-Taught Architect with a Singular Vision
Signature Works and Design Philosophy
“The forms I create acquire meaning through elements of nature, light and air, which give indications of the passing of time and the changing of the seasons.”
Tadao Ando, The Japan Architect (1992) [5]
Chichu Art Museum / Naoshima. Photo by Mitsuo Matsuoka. Courtesy Tadao Ando Architect & Associates
Sources
[1] Pritzker Architecture Prize, Laureate biography: Tadao Ando. https://www.pritzkerprize.com/laureates/1995
[2] Broadsheet Melbourne, Ethan Hughes, “MPavilion Architect Tadao Ando on Influences, Inspiration and Making His Australian Architectural Debut,” Nov 2023. https://www.broadsheet.com.au/melbourne/art-and-design/article/mpavilion-architect-tadao-ando-influences-inspiration-making-his-australian-architectural-debut
[3] Pritzker Architecture Prize, ibid.
[4] Broadsheet Melbourne, ibid.
[5] The Japan Architect, 1992.
[6] Naomi Milgrom Foundation, MPavilion 10 Design Statement.
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