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Tadao Ando (安藤忠雄, born September 13, 1941 in Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese architect whose approach to architecture is sometimes categorised as Critical Regionalism. Ando has led a storied life, working as truck driver and boxer before settling on the profession of architecture without having taken formal training. He works primarily in concrete and is renown for an exemplary craftsmanship which invokes a Japanese sense of materiality, junction and spatial narrative through the pared aesthetics of international modernism.In 1969, he established the firm Tadao Ando Architects & Associates .
In 1995, Ando won the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize medallion. He donated the $100,000 prize money to the orphans of the 1995 Kobe earthquake.
1 Buildings and works
1.1 Completed
- Row House (Azuma House), Sumiyoshi, Osaka prefecture, Japan, 1976
- Rokko Housing One, Rokko , Kobe prefecture , Japan, 1983
- Festival, Naha, Okinawa prefecture, Japan, 1984This page is about the year 1984. For other uses of 1984, see 1984 (disambiguation). 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday (link shows calendar). Events January January 1 Brunei becomes a fully independent state January 1 AT&T is broken up into 22 indepe
- Church on the Water, Tomamu, Hokkaido prefecture, Japan, 19881988 is a leap year starting on Friday (click on link for calendar). Events January January 2 Georgia celebrates its bicentennial statehood. January 9 Connecticut celebrates its bicentennial statehood. January 26 Australia celebrates its bicentennial day.
- Children's Museum, HimejiHimeji (; -shi) is a city located in Hyogo, Japan. As of 2003, the city has an estimated population of 480,404 and the density of 1,742. 55 persons per km˛. The total area is 275. A castle town, Himeji is home to the Himeji castle, a UNESCO World Heritage, Hyogo prefecture, Japan, 19891989 is a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). Events January January 7 Akihito becomes Emperor of Japan following the death of Hirohito. The Heisei period begins January 8 the Kegworth Air Disaster A British Midland Boeing 737 cra
- Church of the Light, IbarakiIbaraki (; -shi) is a city located in Osaka, Japan. As of 2003, the city has an estimated population of 262,516 and the density of 3,430. 68 persons per km˛. The total area is 76. The city was founded on January 1, 1948. External links in Japanese., Osaka prefecture, Japan, 1989 [1] [2]
- Water Temple, Awaji Island, Hyogo prefecture, Japan, 1991 [3]
- Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Naoshima, Kagawa prefecture, Japan, 1992 [4] [5]
- Japanese Pavilion for Expo 92, Seville, Spain, 1992
- Rokko Housing Two, Rokko, Kobe, Japan, 1993
- Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Saint Louis, Missouri, 2001 [6]
- Ryotaro Shiba Memorial Museum, Higashiosaka, Osaka prefecture, Japan, 2001
- Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas, 2002 [7]
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