Incredible Lightness
And what’s spiritual these days, if not museums? They’re our cathedrals, as cultural pundits like to say. Which makes the opening this week of Ando’s Ft. Worth museum a transcendently big deal. Ando has long been famous among design buffs; MoMA in New York singled him out for an exhibition as long ago as 1991. In ‘95 he was awarded the Pritzker, architecture’s biggest prize. But until the last year or so, he’d built almost no projects outside Japan....