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    Introduction
    Tadao Ando (安藤 忠雄, Andō Tadao, born 13 September 1941) is a Japanese self-taught architect whose approach to architecture and landscape was categorized by architectural historian Francesco Dal Co as "critical regionalism". He is the winner of the 1995 Pritzker Prize.
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    Introduction
    Ando worked as a truck driver and boxer prior to the period 1962-1969, when he embarked on a self-directed course of architectural study, observing temples, shrines, and tea houses, and the work of modernists such as Le Corbusier and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. He returned to to Osaka in 1969 to open his own studio, Tadao Ando, Architect & Associates.
    Nationality
    Japanese
    Gender
    Male
    Roles
    Artist, Architect, Designer
    Names
    Tadao Ando, Tadao Andō, 安藤忠雄
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    500034032
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    Works

    14 works online

    Exhibition

    Publication

    • Tadao Ando Kenneth Frampton, 1991 Paperback, pages
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