文章轉載自美學的經濟
撰文 / 詹偉雄<數位時代雙週>總編輯

日本建築師安藤忠雄來台演講,全場兩千人爆滿；這位只有高中學歷，當過拳擊選手的老頑童，故事真的是精采！

哪些建築師的建築，你會“ 買 ”？對全世界而言，目前有兩個建築師可說炙手可熱，一個是設計西班牙畢爾包（Bilbao）古根漢美笒館的美國人Frank Gehry，另一個則是日本人安藤忠雄（Tadao Ando）；前者是後現代風格的代表人物，以奇特造型和詭異想著名，後者則是東方極簡主義大師，以清水混凝土牆和空間透光的玄妙本領，迷死一票西方人。　　 這兩位建築師能紅，除了他們都得過建築界的「諾貝爾獎」──Pritzker Architecture Prize (Gehry 於一九八九年﹑安藤則是在一九九五年拿到)外，最重要的原因是這兩個人目前的設計約都已經排到「光年之外」，他們是建築師這行裡，極端少數﹑非常稀有﹑桀傲不馴的個性人物。
正因如此，安藤忠雄二００四年十月九日來台灣演講，我拼了命也要去聽。


1.建築師人生，就是戰鬥人生
演講開始，安藤就寺現場滿滿是慕名而來的台灣業建築師，大表「失望」，因為他最想對話的聽眾是「學建築的學生」，設計演講題目也是「寄託於夢的建築」，顥然他認為對已經「無夢」的職場建築師來說，這題目多半是浪費了的。

果然，演講中他不談建築們最關心的建築技法﹑材料運用﹑空間思惟，反而是自述他如何由一個貧家子弟，一步步在生活空間裡構築著當建築師的夢，並且不斷和週遭的日本官僚體制﹑市儈商人搏鬥的歷程。每一張他展示的作品幻燈片，背後都是年輕人「受挫受辱」的故事，所以他說：「我的建築師人生，其實就是一種『戰鬥』的人生」。

對熟悉安藤建築的台灣人來說，這個「戰鬥」的隱喻其實是非常唐突的，因為他蓋的房子一派靜謐的清水混凝土牆，大面的玻璃投射安靜挪移的日光，大概連一片葉子落下都會有如轟然作響，怎麼會有如此殺伐之氣？

仔細想想，安藤之言是有道理的，對戰後汲汲於經濟成長﹑急著彰顥財富和身家價值的日本人來說，安藤設計家屋混凝土牆既不能掛名畫，裝不上酒櫃；他設計的廟宇﹑美術館﹑集合公寓也無法展示華麗建材，諸般種種，都不符合日本社會的群體價值，難怪他自一九六九年二十八歲創業後，就一直和日本社會搏鬥。


2.人物變大了，夢想變得更大
但，在當天演講現場，毋寧更吸引人的，是他說的另一面的﹑追求「和平」的建築家人生，也就是自一九九０年後，他致力於公共空間﹑荒丘新生﹑都市園林等的偌大公益建築個案，而這同樣也是和官僚﹑建築商一步步鬥智鬥力得來的。舉例來說，一九九五年阪神大地震後，他致力於傾頹社區的重建，透過百萬株樹的造林，將住民由死亡的陰影中拯救出來。大阪填海新建的關西機場，請來設計巴黎龐畢度中心而人?名的義大利建竹師Renzo Piano，設計雖然一流（Piano 也是一九九八年Pritzker獎得主），但卻留下瀨戶內海淡路島上一半挖禿的山嶺，身為大阪人，安藤主動發起禿山拯救計劃，種下三十萬顆樹，並且說服建設公司在此開發旅館，花下近十年時間，終於他得意地展示：「樹終於長到四公尺高了」，而「世界盃足球賽時，英國金童貝克漢帶著太太來這旅館住了二個月，我終於對得起老闆」。

聽完安藤演講，你不得不相信社會真的變了，這位只有高中學歷﹑自修考上建築師執照的人，如今卻成為世界風雲人物；而且當人物變大了，他的夢想也變得更大﹑更大。這真是讓人鼓舞啊！

文章轉載自美學的經濟
撰文 / 詹偉雄<數位時代雙週>總編輯

日本建築師安藤忠雄來台演講,全場兩千人爆滿；這位只有高中學歷，當過拳擊選手的老頑童，故事真的是精采！

哪些建築師的建築，你會“ 買 ”？對全世界而言，目前有兩個建築師可說炙手可熱，一個是設計西班牙畢爾包（Bilbao）古根漢美笒館的美國人Frank Gehry，另一個則是日本人安藤忠雄（Tadao Ando）；前者是後現代風格的代表人物，以奇特造型和詭異想著名，後者則是東方極簡主義大師，以清水混凝土牆和空間透光的玄妙本領，迷死一票西方人。　　 這兩位建築師能紅，除了他們都得過建築界的「諾貝爾獎」──Pritzker Architecture Prize (Gehry 於一九八九年﹑安藤則是在一九九五年拿到)外，最重要的原因是這兩個人目前的設計約都已經排到「光年之外」，他們是建築師這行裡，極端少數﹑非常稀有﹑桀傲不馴的個性人物。
正因如此，安藤忠雄二００四年十月九日來台灣演講，我拼了命也要去聽。


1.建築師人生，就是戰鬥人生
演講開始，安藤就寺現場滿滿是慕名而來的台灣業建築師，大表「失望」，因為他最想對話的聽眾是「學建築的學生」，設計演講題目也是「寄託於夢的建築」，顥然他認為對已經「無夢」的職場建築師來說，這題目多半是浪費了的。

果然，演講中他不談建築們最關心的建築技法﹑材料運用﹑空間思惟，反而是自述他如何由一個貧家子弟，一步步在生活空間裡構築著當建築師的夢，並且不斷和週遭的日本官僚體制﹑市儈商人搏鬥的歷程。每一張他展示的作品幻燈片，背後都是年輕人「受挫受辱」的故事，所以他說：「我的建築師人生，其實就是一種『戰鬥』的人生」。

對熟悉安藤建築的台灣人來說，這個「戰鬥」的隱喻其實是非常唐突的，因為他蓋的房子一派靜謐的清水混凝土牆，大面的玻璃投射安靜挪移的日光，大概連一片葉子落下都會有如轟然作響，怎麼會有如此殺伐之氣？

仔細想想，安藤之言是有道理的，對戰後汲汲於經濟成長﹑急著彰顥財富和身家價值的日本人來說，安藤設計家屋混凝土牆既不能掛名畫，裝不上酒櫃；他設計的廟宇﹑美術館﹑集合公寓也無法展示華麗建材，諸般種種，都不符合日本社會的群體價值，難怪他自一九六九年二十八歲創業後，就一直和日本社會搏鬥。


2.人物變大了，夢想變得更大
但，在當天演講現場，毋寧更吸引人的，是他說的另一面的﹑追求「和平」的建築家人生，也就是自一九九０年後，他致力於公共空間﹑荒丘新生﹑都市園林等的偌大公益建築個案，而這同樣也是和官僚﹑建築商一步步鬥智鬥力得來的。舉例來說，一九九五年阪神大地震後，他致力於傾頹社區的重建，透過百萬株樹的造林，將住民由死亡的陰影中拯救出來。大阪填海新建的關西機場，請來設計巴黎龐畢度中心而人?名的義大利建竹師Renzo Piano，設計雖然一流（Piano 也是一九九八年Pritzker獎得主），但卻留下瀨戶內海淡路島上一半挖禿的山嶺，身為大阪人，安藤主動發起禿山拯救計劃，種下三十萬顆樹，並且說服建設公司在此開發旅館，花下近十年時間，終於他得意地展示：「樹終於長到四公尺高了」，而「世界盃足球賽時，英國金童貝克漢帶著太太來這旅館住了二個月，我終於對得起老闆」。

聽完安藤演講，你不得不相信社會真的變了，這位只有高中學歷﹑自修考上建築師執照的人，如今卻成為世界風雲人物；而且當人物變大了，他的夢想也變得更大﹑更大。這真是讓人鼓舞啊！

Reprinted from “The Economy of Aesthetics”
By Wei-Xiong Zhan, managing editor of “Business Next Biweekly”

Tadao Ando, the Japanese celebrated architect, had a speech in Taipei. The lecture hall was packed with two thousand people. This old “naughty boy,” who only finished high school education and was once a boxer, presented his splendid story in his speech.

Which architect’s “work” would you like to purchase? Today there are two extremely celebrated as well as influential architects in the world; one is the American Frank Gehry who designed the Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain; and another is the Japanese Tadao Ando. The former presents Post-Modernism, full of whimsy-whamsy and unique modeling; and the latter presents Asian Minimalism, built in simple concrete, creating a bright and abstruse atmosphere of space, which is very attractive to western people. The reason they are so hot nowadays is not only they both won the Pritzker Architecture Prize, which is like the Architecture “Nobel Prize” (Gehry won it in 1989, and Ando in 1995), but also there are few architectures who have unique personalities, as well as extreme power and influence in the world. Besides, their schedules are so occupied that it seems almost impossible to work with them in a hundred years.
Because of the reasons above, I had to go to Tadao Ando’s speech no matter what happened when he came to Taiwan on October 9th in 2004.


1. Struggling is the all in an architect’s life
At the beginning of his speech, Ando joked that he was disappointed because the audience that packed the hall were architects attracted by his reputation. What he really wanted was to communicate with students who were interested in architecture. The topic of his speech was “Architecture Placed Hope on Dream.” Obviously, he thought that this topic might not be inspiring to those practicing architects.

Just as expected, he did not talk about designing skills, material uses, or spatial perspective, but described how he established the dream to be an architect in poverty, how he struggled in Japan’s bureaucracy system and fought with businessmen philistines. Behind the slide show of his works, I saw how a young dreamer got insulted, but still insisted on doing the right thing. He said, “my life as an architect is a process of ‘combating’”

For Taiwanese who are so familiar with Ando’s design, the metaphor of “combating” sounds strange. His design always presents a tranquil atmosphere, simple concrete walls, and huge windows reflecting the quiet moving sunlight, even a dropping leaf would sound noisy. Why did he describe it as a combat?

However, it was understandable if you think deeply. For Japanese who survived after World War II, they tended to establish their wealth and individual value. Thus, Ando’s design, which did not fit huge famous paintings or cellarets, became a conflict. Besides, temples, museums, and apartments designed by Ando were not made of gorgeous material, which could show people’s luxury taste and a group value. No wonder he said that he began fighting against Japanese social values as soon as he started doing this job at the age of 28 in 1969.


2. When you become a figure with great achievements, your dream also grows
What impressed me in his speech was his idea to be an architect bringing “peace” to the world. After 1990 he devoted himself to public welfare cases such as improvement of public spaces, renewal of wastes, and civic parks. Of course, he had to fight against those bureaucrats and construction firms to make his dreams come true. For instance, he devoted his energy to reconstruct the collapsed communities after the Osaka-Kobe Earthquake in 1995. Through planting a million trees, the habitants felt they were mentally rescued from the shadow of death. The new Kansai Airport in Osaka was built by the famous Italian Renzo Piano who designed the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Renzo Piano’s design was excellent (he was the winner of Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1998), but caused bald mountain ridges around Awaji Island, Inland Sea. As a resident of Osaka, Ando took the initiative to rescue the bald mountain ridges. He planted thirty thousands trees, and convinced the construction firms to build hotels. He kept on caring for this area for ten years, and he was proud that the “trees finally are four meters tall,” and “David Beckham and his wife stayed here for two months as the FIFA World Cup took place. I am so glad that I don’t let my boss down.”

Through Ando’s excellent speech, you have to believe that the world will give you a chance if you have a great dream. Tadao Ando, who only finished a high school education and got his architect license through self-study, has become one of the most celebrated architects in the world. When you become a figure with great achievement, your dream also grows. Isn’t it so inspiring?