Who is Tadao Ando
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.Early life
Ando was born a few minutes before his twin brother in 1941 in Osaka, Japan. At the age of two, his family chose to separate them, and have Tadao live with his great grandmother. He worked as a boxer and fighter before settling on the profession of architect, despite never having formal training in the field. Struck by the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Imperial Hotel on a trip to Tokyo as a second-year high school student, he eventually decided to end his boxing career less than two y...
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- I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.
- If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
- When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.
- I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.
- Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.
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Raya_for_bts: jimin has atlas by tadao ando and beyond the west on his table. both are books about architecture.Sub_versi0n: the books! atlas tadao ando:
Oluwatxbi: i was asked in an interview yday who my design mentors were and i’m still so pained i didn’t say virgil. i mentioned tadao ando, daniel arsham & niyi okeowo
Bookkenchiku: 223. tadao ando conversations with students ／matthew hunter.
Meadesbot: the unfinished works of tadao ando, will always accelerate. commuter, summary, spherical.
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