Tadao Ando
- 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.
- Wikidata
- Q208220
- 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
- Ulan
- 500034032
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Tadao Ando Church on the Water, Tomamu, Hokkaido, Japan (Elevation and plan) 1985–1988
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Tadao Ando Church on the Water, Tomamu, Hokkaido, Japan, Plan and sketch 1985–1988
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Tadao Ando Church on the Water, Tomamu, Hokkaido, Japan, Elevation and plan, sketch 1985–1988
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Tadao Ando Church on the Water, Hokkaido, Japan 1985-89
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Tadao Ando Church of the Light, Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan (Interior perspective) 1989
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Tadao Ando Church of the Light, Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan, Interior perspective 1989
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Tadao Ando Church of the Light, Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan, Plan 1989
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Tadao Ando Church of the Light, Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan, Plan 1989
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Tadao Ando Church of the Light, Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan (Plan) 1989
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Tadao Ando Church of the Light, Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan 1984-89
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Tadao Ando Chikatsu-Asuka Historical Museum, Minami-Kawachi, Osaka, Japan, Exterior perspective c. 1989-91
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Tadao Ando Chikatsa-Asuka Historical Museum, Minami-Kawachi, Osaka, Japan 1989-1993
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Tadao Ando Chikatsu-Asuka Historical Museum, Minami-Kawachi, Osaka, Japan, Perspective sketch 1991
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Tadao Ando Chikatsa-Asuka Historical Museum, Osaka, Japan 1989-91
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