Tadao Ando is a Japanese Architect known for his unique style and approach characterized as critical regionalism, which aims to counter such components of the International Style as placelessness and the lack of identity. Ando worked in the direction of illustrating what influenced him as an individual and an artist. Born on September 13, 1941, in Osaka, Japan, Tadao Ando had a complicated family life and was separated from his twin brother to live with his grandmother (“The Life and Architectural Career of Tadao Ando”). As a young boy, he spent most of his time on the streets and in the fields, which allowed Ando to connect to nature and the urban heritage of Japan. Between the ages of ten and seventeen, the soon-to-be architect used to spend much of his time making models of airplanes and ships, while also learning the skills of a carpenter who worked across the street from Ando’s house. After briefly becoming a boxer in his adolescence, the architect began his path of self-education by getting hired as an apprentice for the designers and city planners around Japan. Tadao Ando mentioned that he had never been a good student and always preferred learning something on his own outside the study setting. When Ando was around eighteen years old, he started visiting shrines, tea houses, and temples in Nara and Kyoto, getting to know the traditional style of architecture in Japan. How he approached studies was going around to see actual buildings, reading about their history, value, and heritage. The contribution of Le Corbusier to modern architecture was a significant influence on the artistic approach that Ando pursued (The Pritzker Architecture Prize). Once in Marseilles, the architect visited Únite d’Habitation, which is a modernist residential housing that Le Corbusier created in collaboration with Nadir Afonso, and was inspired by the dynamic and innovative use of concrete, which became his most widely used material. Tadao Ando’s concrete has been referred to as “smooth-as-silk,” explained by the high construction quality that relies on the shape and the form in which the concrete is being cast (The Pritzker Architecture Prize). The overall appreciation for the simplicity of conventional materials that have been used in the Japanese building tradition is what shaped Ando’s architectural style. The cultural and societal influences mattered the most, and the architect mentioned that he creates “enclosed spaces mainly by means of concrete walls. The primary reason is to create a place for the individual, a zone for oneself in society” (The Pritzker Architecture Prize). The work in reinforced concrete has been set to redefine spaces in innovative and unique ways in which allow the continuously fluctuating movements of light and wind to exist in unity with the structures, ranging from places of worship or public museums to apartment complexes and commercial shopping malls. The Church of the Light (Figure 1) is one such example exemplifying a balance between architecture as art and the natural environment through the manner in which light can identify and form unique perceptions of space equally with concrete structures. In the place of worship, there is a distinct duality of the nature of existence,