“I don’t believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind.” —Tadao Ando

Discover the work of Tadao Ando in this virtual edition of SAM's Saturday University Lecture Series led by Jin Baek. A world-renown Japanese architect and Pritzker Prize winner, Ando’s work both in residential and in religious spaces is noted for its use of light and darkness, heaviness of materials, and emptiness of space.

Jin Baek is a professor at the Department of Architecture and Architectural Engineering, Seoul National University. He acquired Bachelor of Science from Seoul National University, Master of Architecture from Yale University, and completed his Ph.D. in the history and theory of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Nothingness: Tadao Ando’s Christian Sacred Space (Routledge, 2009) and Architecture as the Ethics of Climate (Routledge, 2016).