Tadao Ando
| Tadao Ando | |
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Tadao Ando (2004)
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| Born |
September 13, 1941 Minato-ku, Osaka, Japan |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Awards |
Alvar Aalto Medal, 1985 |
| Practice | Tadao Ando Architects & Associates |
| Buildings |
Row House, Sumiyoshi, 1979 |
| Projects | Rokko Housing I, II, III, Kobe, 1983-1999 |
Alvar Aalto Medal, 1985
Carlsberg Architectural Prize (1992)
Pritzker Prize, 1995
RIBA Royal Gold Medal, 1997
AIA Gold Medal, 2002
Row House, Sumiyoshi, 1979
Church of the Light, Osaka, 1989
Tadao Ando (安藤 忠雄 Andō Tadao?, born September 13, 1941) is a Japanese self-taught architect whose approach to architecture and landscape was categorized by architectural historian Francesco Dal Co as "critical regionalism".
Ando was born a few minutes before his twin brother in 1941 in Osaka, Japan. At the age of two, his family chose to separate them, and have Tadao live with his grandmother. He worked as a truck driver and boxer before settling on the profession of architect, despite never having formal training in the field. Struck by the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Imperial Hotel on a trip to Tokyo as a second-year high school student, he eventually decided to end his boxing career less than two years after graduating from high school to pursue architecture. He attended night classes to learn drawing and took correspondence courses on interior design. He visited buildings designed by renowned architects like Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Louis Kahn before returning to Osaka in 1968 to establish his own design studio, Tadao Ando Architects and Associates.
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