temple of shame

Shiba Ryotaro Memorial Museum Library, Osaka, Japan

Architect Tadao Ando designed a new concrete building to sit alongside the original family home of the late Japanese author, Shiba Ryotaro. The award winning memorial museum, opened to the public in November 2001, was designed to house the revered writer’s extensive library of more than 60,000 books. Ando decided that the library need not display all the books at one time and created a three-storey, 11 metre high display wall to showcase up to 20,000 books at any one time.

Architect Tadao Ando, explained his inspiration,

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It's evocative and sad and weirdly hopeful. I wouldn't kill another person, and I don't have a sword, but the possibility of an easily done and ever-present option--done however, good or bad, willing or impulsive--that makes me fundamentally unsuited to living in the world like I do sticks with me. Especially the implied inverse that I could simply not do that thing and keep going.

I know it is a very overwrought way to see things, but I guess I just am that way. It's comforting to think that even if I have some innate capacity to do wrong, I don't have to, and maybe it's possible to just keep choosing not to. I think that would be an interesting character to play and the way they are designed has stuck with me for ages.

Also the art from the book is a cool lizard smoking a cigarette which is the most important part to me.