Tadao Ando Profile
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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. 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.
Tadao Ando’s works include a large number of successful public and private buildings, such as the Row House in Sumiyoshi, Osaka, 1976, which gave him the Annual Prize of Architectural Institute of Japan in 1979, Church of the Light, Osaka, 1989, Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis, 2001, Armani Teatro, Milan, 2001, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 2002 and 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT in Tokyo, 2007 or recently Casa Wabi Foundation in Mexico.
Tadao Ando Bibliography – Recommended Books
This bibliography consists of a selective list of books relating to Tadao Ando.
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Ando. Complete Works 1975–Today. 40th Anniversary Edition
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| Discover the unique aesthetic of Tadao Ando, the only architect ever to have won the discipline’s four most prestigious prizes: the Pritzker, Carlsberg, Praemium Imperiale, and Kyoto Prize. This collection spans the breadth of Ando’s entire career, including such stunning new projects as the Shanghai Poly Grand Theater and the Roberto Garza Sada Center in Monterrey, Mexico. Each project is profiled through photographs and architectural drawings that explore Ando’s unprecedented use of concrete, wood, water, light, space, and natural forms.
Featuring designs from award-winning private homes, churches, museums, and apartment complexes to cultural spaces throughout Japan, South Korea, France, Italy, Germany, Mexico, and the USA, this compact edition brings you up close and personal with a Modernist master. SHOP NOW →
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Tadao Ando 1983-2000 (English and Spanish Edition)
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Updated and revised omnibus edition on Tadao Ando covering projects from 1983 to 2000. His latest buildings, such as the Daylight Museum in Shiga and the Eychaner/Lee House in Chicago, and a recent interview with and an essay by William J.R. Curtis.
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Tadao Ando: Conversations with Students
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| The newest volume in our popular Conversations series features Japanese architect Tadao Ando. One of the most celebrated living architects, Ando is best known for crafting serenely austere structures that fuse Japanese building traditions with Western modernism. His minimalist masterworks-geometric forms clad in silky-smooth exposed concrete-are suffused with natural light and set in perfect harmony with the landscape. In these highlights from lectures delivered at the University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Architecture, Ando candidly describes his experiences as a largely self-taught practitioner, tracing his development from an early interest in the traditional building craft of his native Japan through his political awakening in the turbulent 1960s to his current stature as one of the world’s foremost architects. Besides exploring his aesthetic influences and working process, Ando offers students a road map to maintain professional integrity and become effective agents of change in the world.
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