Work

Church of the Light

A small chapel whose cruciform opening turns daylight itself into the building’s most charged architectural material.

building

built

1989

Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan

Church

Religious Building Sacred Building Concrete Glass Monographs

Concrete Glass

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Gallery

Church of the Light gallery

Church of the Light interior view

Interior view of the cruciform light opening in the Church of the Light.

Credit: Bergmann

Rights: CC BY-SA 3.0 · licensed

Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0

Architects

Bureaus

Books

Architects

Architect

Tadao Ando

Born 1941 · Osaka, Japan

Role: lead architect

Primary

Bureaus

Bureau

Tadao Ando Architect & Associates

practice · Osaka, Japan

Role: designer

Primary

Books

Book

theory

Tadao Ando: Complete Works

Francesco Dal Co · 1995

Monographs

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