Ando Gallery
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美術館正面 /©Masaki Tada. -
内観 /©Nobutada Omote. -
ギャラリー正面 /©Nobutada Omote. -
ギャラリーロゴ /©Nobutada Omote. -
青りんご /©Nobutada Omote.
The Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art is located in HAT Kobe, an area developed as a new urban hub in the eastern part of the city. The museum, which opened in April 2002 as a symbol of cultural restoration in the wake of the 1995 Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, was designed by the internationally renowned architect Ando Tadao.
The Ando Gallery, designed and funded by a donation from Mr. Ando, opened in May 2019. The gallery has an upper and a lower level, and displays architectural models, concept sketches, and drawings by Ando. The upper level houses a library area, where visitors can freely browse through Ando’s writings and other architecture-related books. Looking south from the Gallery towards the Seaside Deck, visitors can see Ando’s Green Apple monument, inspired by the poem “Youth” by American poet Samuel Ullman. This monument stands as an embodiment of Ando’s philosophy.
The Ando Gallery
Facility information
| Name of the |
Exhibition Block No. 2, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art |
|---|---|
| Open hours |
10:00–18:00 (last admission is 30 minutes before closing) |
| Closed days | Same as the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art |
| Admission | Free |
Outline of the building
| Structure | Steel structure, three stories above the ground |
|---|---|
| Building area | 87.82㎡ |
| Total floor area | 614.74㎡ |
＜Exhibition Map＞
Click I–IV or the Green Apple on the map below to see the Exhibition Structure.
Access to Green Apple
About Tadao Ando
Biography
Tadao Ando
Architect. Born in Osaka in 1941. Self-taught in architecture, he founded Tadao Ando Architect & Associates in 1969.
Notable works include Church of the Light (Osaka, 1989), Rokko Housing (Hyogo, 1983 (I), 1993 (II), 1999(III)), Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (Fort Worth, 2002), Chichu Art Museum (Naoshima, 2004), Nakanoshima Children’s Book Forest (Osaka, 2020), and Bourse de Commerce / Pinault Collection (Paris, 2021).
He has received numerous awards, including Annual Prize, Architectural Institute of Japan “Row House, Sumiyoshi” (1979), The Pritzker Architecture Prize (1995), Union Internationale des Architectes Gold Medal (2005), Japanese Order of Culture (2010) and Commandeur de la Légion d’Honneur, France (2021).
He has served as a visiting professor at Yale, Columbia, and Harvard Universities. Since 1997, he has been a professor at the University of Tokyo and is now a professor emeritus.
Architectural Highlights
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The museum is designed not only to exhibit works of art, but also to allow visitors to appreciate the building itself as a large-scale work of art. We invite you to explore the spacious interior and exterior, experience Tadao Ando’s clear yet diverse architectural expressions, and enjoy the rich spaces that take on different character through light and shadow.
Books and Related Materials by Tadao Ando
Books and related materials by Tadao Ando can be consulted at the library corner on the upper floor of the Ando Gallery, as well as in the Art
Information Center, which is located next to the Information on the first floor of the museum.
Museum Shop
At the Museum Shop next to the north entrance on the first floor, you can find
books by Tadao Ando and related merchandise.