Tadao Ando
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 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.
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 .
Buildings and works
Completed
Row House (Azuma House), Sumiyoshi, Osaka prefecture , Japan , 1976
Rokko Housing One, Rokko , Kobe prefecture , Japan, 1983
Festival, Naha , Okinawa prefecture , Japan, 1984
Church on the Water, Tomamu, Hokkaido prefecture , Japan, 1988
Children's Museum, Himeji , Hyogo prefecture, Japan, 1989
Church of the Light, Ibaraki , 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]
In progress
Jingumae 4-Chome Project, Tokyo, Japan (expected completion in January 2006) [8]
House, stable, and mausoleum for former fashion designer Tom Ford, near Santa Fe, New Mexico
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
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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