Ibaraki, Osaka, completed in 1989, the "Light of the church" for the design of the classic church Ando do not think that too. With the wind of the church and the church's experience of water, after purification extraction - "Light of the Cross" to make the world the birth of dumping, pay homage.
Light of the church location not as good as wind, water, blessed two years of the church, by the venue and the surrounding architectural style effects. Scale down to 15 degrees to the wall of the rectangular cut into the church body mass, will be separated with the main entrance.
Designed to shift the focus to internal. Space to a solid concrete wall of the enclosure to create the absolute darkness of space, the sun out from the wall on the left vertical and horizontal openings permeable, creating the famous "Light of the Cross" - abstract, Xilian and honest the purity of space, and reached complete subjection to the divine. Ando's imagination and indulge in the myth of repentance, place in them, oblivious to the passage of time.
"Light of the Cross," all the time to remind people of the world attention to their detachment in the building above the terrible absolute power, and the fresh wind of the sobering church, Church of the water question and answer a very different state of Meditation.
Tadao Ando's lecture at the Hunan University is mentioned in:
"In fact, we failed to understand Light Church"
"A lot of people say it is very beautiful cross-shaped light,"
"I am very concerned about that everyone is equal, in the Vatican, the church is high above, the priest points higher than the audience, and I hope that in the light of the church pastor with the audience that everyone is equal, in the light of the church, step is to go down, This pastor station with the audience sitting as high, thus eliminating the unequal psychology. This is the essence of the church of light. "
