The architecture and life of Tadao Ando.

 Inspired by a carpenter in his area, a fifteen-year-old non-city boy named Tadao Ando dreamed of becoming an architect, but the journey was a difficult one. As someone with neither a university degree nor professional training, it was hard for him to earn the respect of his peers.
 However, he never gave up and studied architecture on his own, using his travels as a classroom and books as his textbooks. His early work Row House of Sumiyoshi earned him the spotlight of the architecture community in Japan. With a dream of building houses where the human soul can live, Tadao Ando attracted international attention with his Church of Light and Church on the Water, which he created in his architectural style of connecting nature, architecture, and man.
 One day, he received an offer to rehabilitate a deserted island called Naoshima. There, he built the Chichu Art Museum and the Benesse House Museum as he transformed the deserted island into a new culture. In the midst of a dynamic architecture career, he got unexpected news when he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. After surviving the surgery, he became more devoted to his work. He hopes one day to build a children’s library where books will help children see the world in new ways, just like he used books to expand his knowledge of architecture. Through this, he hopes to realize his dream of creating an Earth-centered philosophy.