MYSTIC INN 7th RAY
Toshi Ando is an architectural designer and 3D CG artist. He was born in Japan in 1972, moved to USA in 1990 where he studied art & architecture, and graduated from City College of New York with a degree in architecture.
After exploring art at the Art Student League of New York, Toshi entered the school of architecture at City College of New York with an interest to explore the potential power of architectural space that uplifts people into higher evolved beings. Toshi believes that architectural environment where we spend most of our time creates our tendencies, develops our character, and with well designed space changes our destiny.
After graduating
from the school of architecture at CCNY, Toshi joined a well-known
avant-garde artist, Arakawa+Gins's studio in New York City and had worked with them as an architectural designer for
7 years. He was
exposed to futuristic and philosophical design method and style that
challenges the human limitations and potentials. Toshi had also
developed artistic
expressions of architectural design using 3D computer software, Autodesk
Maya, and other visual software tools during this period.
He
went
back to Japan in 2008 and had worked for US
base
construction site in order to further develop knowledge in
construction details. He was exposed to the business side of architectural
design and learned construction details through this opportunity in this
Japanese general construction company for several years.
In 2011 April, he met a former owner and a founder of Hard Rock Cafe, Isaac Tigret, in India, who has been working passionately for development of a futuristic self-sustainable environmental community, the Mystic In of the 7th Ray, inspired and initiated by his spiritual master, Sri Sathya Sai Baba. Toshi was highly inspired by the spirit of the community and joined the charitable trust. He worked on schematic design through the visualization of series of building that constitute the community using 3D Maya, AutoCAD, and other related visual softwares. He had completed 3 initial design phases covering more than a dozen buildings.
From 2013, Toshi went back to Japan where he was invited to join the former employer, Tokyu Construction, to support their US base construction projects. He is currently helping them with construction management works, importing building material, interpreter and translation work for several construction sites throughout Japan.
For contact: andotoshi23@gmail.com
