Tadao Ando: From Emptiness to Infinity

Tadao Ando: From Emptiness to Infinity, a 2013 documentary by German filmmaker Mathias Frick, offers an exclusive behind-the-scenes look into the work and processes of Ando, the only architect to have won the discipline's four most prestigious prizes: the Pritzker, Carlsberg, Praemium Imperiale, and Kyoto Prize. Ando's unprecedented use of concrete, wood, water, light, space, and natural forms creates a Zen-like connection between Japanese traditions and contemporary modernism. His creative use of natural light and his buildings' ability to seamlessly evoke the contours of the landscape are his calling cards, and give Ando's award-winning homes, churches, museums, apartment buildings and cultural spaces an open, inviting quality that belies the structures' minimalist construction. (official distributor synopsis)