Tadao Ando

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Image:Westin Awaji Island Hotel 06.jpg Tadao Ando (安藤忠雄, Andō Tadao, 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 exposed cast-in-place concrete and is renowned for an exemplary craftsmanship which invokes a Japanese sense of materiality, junction and spatial narrative through the pared aesthetics of international modernism. His buildings are often characterized by complex three-dimensional circulation paths. These paths interweave between interior and exterior spaces formed both within large-scale geometric shapes and in the spaces between them.

In 1969, he established the firm Tadao Ando Architects & Associates.

His "Row House in Sumiyoshi" (Azuma House), a small two-story, cast-in-place concrete house completed in 1976, is an early work that begins to show elements of his characteristic style. It consists of three equally sized rectangular volumes: two solid volumes of interior spaces separated by an open courtyard. By nature of the courtyard's position between the two interior volumes, it becomes an integral part of the house's circulation system.

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
- 1.2 In progress
2 Awards
3 References
4 External links

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Buildings and works

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Completed

Row House (Azuma House), Sumiyoshi, Osaka prefecture, Japan, 1976
Rokko Housing One, Rokko, Hyogo prefecture, Japan, 1983
Festival, Naha, Okinawa prefecture, Japan, 1984
Church on the Water, Tomamu, Hokkaido prefecture, Japan, 1988
GALLERIA akka, Osaka, Japan, 1988
Children's Museum, Himeji, Hyogo prefecture, Japan, 1989
Church of the Light, Ibaraki, Osaka prefecture, Japan, 1989 [1] [2]
La Collezione, Tokyo, Japan, 1989
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
Private residence, Chicago, Illinois, 1997
Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis, Missouri, 2001 [6]
Ryotaro Shiba Memorial Museum, Higashiosaka, Osaka prefecture, Japan, 2001
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas, 2002 [7]
Chichu Art Museum, Naoshima, Kagawa prefecture, Japan, 2004 [8]
Morimoto restaurant in the Chelsea Market, his first project in Manhattan, opened January 2006.

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In progress

Jingumae 4-Chome Project, Tokyo, Japan (expected completion in January 2006) [9]
House, stable, and mausoleum for former fashion designer Tom Ford, near Santa Fe, New Mexico
Expansion for the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts

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Awards

Annual Prize (Row House, Sumiyoshi), Architectural Institue of Japan, 1979
Cultural Design Prize (Rokko Housing One and Two), Japan, 1983
Alvar Aalto Medal, The Finnish Association of Architects, 1985
Gold Medal of Architecture, French Academy of Architecture, 1989
Carlsberg Architectural Prize, Denmark, 1992
Japan Art Academy Prize, Japan, 1993
Pritzker Architecture Prize, 1995
Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France, 1995
Praemium Imperiale First “FRATE SOLE” Award in Architecture, Japan Art Association, 1996
Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France, 1997
Royal Gold Medal, Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), 1997
AIA Gold Medal, American Institute of Architects (AIA), 2002

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References

Francesco Dal Co. Tadao Ando: Complete Works. Phaidon Press, 1997. ISBN 0714837172
Kenneth Frampton. Tadao Ando: Buildings, Projects, Writings. Rizzoli International Publications, 1984. ISBN 0847805476
Randall J. Van Vynckt. International Dictionary of Architects and Architecture. St. James Press, 1993. ISBN 1558620877

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