Field Report :Tadao Ando’s Lecture: “
The Method of Architecture” (Under the auspices of the Art and Architecture School) -Taking responsibility for society, never give up-

Mr. Tadao Ando is talking eagerly.

Many people are standing. Ono Auditorium is filled to capacity (June 4)

700 people gathered and lecture was also broadcast by projector outside the auditorium.

Art and Architecture School (second-year student)
School of Commerce (fourth-year student)
Munenori Matsuo

The fluent and humorous talk continued in a hoarse voice with no breaks and never bored us. While making us laugh, architect Tadao Ando conveyed many messages to his young audience and strongly expressed his sincere approach to confronting society. Moreover, it was not only me who felt that his repeated words “Never give up” represented the way of life itself for this architect.

Tadao Ando is a widely known architect. The buildings of this national architect won many prizes not only domestically but also outside Japan, and he is invited as a guest professor by many universities. However, the point that I should mention especially when I describe him is that he studied architecture by himself. He began working in architecture without any professional training, and then he jumped out into society with readiness to study by himself when he needed to. This resolution is what made him.. He went out into the world on a pilgrimage, without a guaranteed way home being guaranteed. Instead of formal education, he worked hard to teach himself and considered each design as the design for graduation. When he had no other task, he worked on his design plans even if he had no commission. From this resolution become an architect without giving up, we young people can learn many things.

In this peaceful modern society, young people have neither vibrant energy nor responsibility toward society. Simply because we live in such a time, each of us has to feel our responsible toward society and take it on, wrestling with all the difficulties we encounter. All the people in the audience could take in Ando's enthusiasm as he spoke to us from the podium. From this lecture, I was able to hear Tadao Ando's philosophy of life, as he continues studying by himself still now, and understand his desperate efforts as an artist wrestling with architecture.