Basedon this philosophy, Casa Wabi, located on the Oaxacan coast, was designed by the renowned architect Tadao Ando (Pritzker 1995), looking to generate a space conducive to interaction and where the residents and the communities of the region come together.
TadaoAndo's Casa Wabi is an artist's retreat that stretches along the Mexican coast Kuma and Siza are among a number of other architects from around the world that Sodi has enlisted to build Andoabrió su propio estudio, Tadao Ando Architect & Associates, en 1969, y en 1979 ganó el premio anual del Instituto de Arquitectura de Japón con sus casas en Sumiyoshi, en Osaka; ha recibido otros galardones, tales como el del Diseño Cultural de Japón, la medalla Alvar Aalto y el prestigio-so premio Pritzker de Arquitectura (1995). CasaWabi by Sodi, Bosco; Stierli, Martino - ISBN 10: 0847866866 - ISBN 13: 9780847866861 - Rizzoli Electa - 2019 Tadao Ando's remarkable Casa Wabi dots the Pacific coastline of Mexico with structures by Alberto Kalach, Alvaro Siza, Kengo Kuma, Gloria Cabral, Solano Benitez, Tanizakis words closely resonate with the work of Tadao Ando, vividly expressed in the dramatic diagonal shadows and light of his formational Koshino House (1981), Beyond the horizon: Casa Wabi near Oaxaca by Tadao Ando. 26 April 2019 By Juan Carlos Cano.TheCasa Wabi Foundation is an artist residency founded by Mexican artist Bosco Sodi and designed by Pritzker prize-winning Japanese architect Tadao Ando, inaugurated last October. Ando is credited for his sensitivity to the unity between architecture and nature, and arriving to Casa Wabi from the dusty dirt road that winds off the Pan-American
CasasFijación Vigas Mesas Bancas. Compartir. . Imagen 5 de 43 de la galería de Casa Wabi / Tadao Ando Architect and Associates. Fotografía de Edmund Sumner.
Designwise, as its name implies, Casa Wabi is a meeting of cultures and minds. Around the grounds, you'll find a cylindrical concrete observatory and meditation space by Ando, a chicken coop by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, gardens and a pavilion created by Mexican architect Alberto Kalach, a clay pavilion by Portuguese architect PaCO.