ABSTRACT
In the preceding chapter, Ando’s view that in architecture “life patterns can be extracted and developed from living under severe conditions” (Ando 1984: 8) 1 has been reflected against the demands of Critical Regionalism. I would like to clarify Ando’s position by comparing it with the concept of “form of life” coined by the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. In some way, it formulates the most extreme position that can be opposed to the “populism” which, after “the assumed failure of the mythical hero architect” sees “popular taste as the sole authority of design,” as has said Juhani Pallasmaa (2007: 139). Wittgenstein happened to be an amateur architect and “the clarity of one’s logic” (Ando) to which aesthetic and functional decisions must be subordinated, is manifest not only in his philosophy but also in his architectural creation.
