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Azuma House(住吉の長屋）,Osaka, Japan, 1976
Azuma House(住吉の長屋）,Osaka, Japan, 1976
The famous Church of the Light in Ibaraki-shi, Osaka, Japan
The famous Church of the Light in Ibaraki-shi, Osaka, Japan
Church of the Light Sunday school,Osaka, Japan,1989
Church of the Light Sunday school,Osaka, Japan,1989
Galleria akka,Osaka, Japan,1988
Galleria akka,Osaka, Japan,1988
The Westin Awaji Island designed by Ando
The Westin Awaji Island designed by Ando
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan
Morimoto restaurant at the Chelsea Market in Manhattan's Meatpacking district designed by Tadao Ando
Morimoto restaurant at the Chelsea Market in Manhattan's Meatpacking district designed by Tadao Ando
Times Gallery, Kyoto, Japan, 1983
Times Gallery, Kyoto, Japan, 1983
Rokko Housing One, 1979 and Two, 1991, Kobe, Japan
Rokko Housing One, 1979 and Two, 1991, Kobe, Japan
Mount Rokko Chapel, Kobe, Japan, 1986
Mount Rokko Chapel, Kobe, Japan, 1986
Kobe Waterfront Plaza built with the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kōbe, Japan, 2002
Kobe Waterfront Plaza built with the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kōbe, Japan, 2002

Tadao Ando (安藤忠雄 Andō Tadao?, born September 13, 1941 in Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese architect whose approach to architecture was once categorised as Critical Regionalism. is a city in Japan, located at the mouth of the Yodo River on Osaka Bay, in the Kansai region of the main island of Honshū Church of the light (sometimes called "Church with Light" is the Ibaraki Kasugaoka Church's main chapel is a city in Japan, located at the mouth of the Yodo River on Osaka Bay, in the Kansai region of the main island of Honshū Church of the light (sometimes called "Church with Light" is the Ibaraki Kasugaoka Church's main chapel is a city in Japan, located at the mouth of the Yodo River on Osaka Bay, in the Kansai region of the main island of Honshū is a city in Japan, located at the mouth of the Yodo River on Osaka Bay, in the Kansai region of the main island of Honshū is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture and a prominent port city in Japan with a population of about 1 Chelsea Market is an enclosed urban Food court and shopping mall in New York City Manhattan Island, in New York Harbor, is much the largest part of the Borough of Manhattan, one of the Five Boroughs which form the City of New York The Meatpacking District, officially known as Gansevoort Market, and also known as MePa, is a Neighborhood in the New York City borough (IPA /kʲoːto / is a city in the central part of the island of Honshū, Japan. is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture and a prominent port city in Japan with a population of about 1 is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture and a prominent port city in Japan with a population of about 1 is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture and a prominent port city in Japan with a population of about 1 Events 509 BC - The Temple of Jupiter on Rome 's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September Year 1941 ( MCMXLI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (the link will display 1941 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. is a city in Japan, located at the mouth of the Yodo River on Osaka Bay, in the Kansai region of the main island of Honshū For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. The are the dominant Ethnic group of Japan. Worldwide approximately 130 million people are of Japanese descent of these approximately 127 million are residents of Japan An architect is a licensed individual who leads a design team in the Planning and Design of buildings and participates in oversight of Building Construction The term architecture (from Greek αρχιτεκτονικήarchitektoniki) can be used to mean a process a profession or documentation Critical regionalism is an approach to Architecture that strives to counter the placelessness and lack of meaning in Modern Architecture by using contextual forces Ando has led a storied life, working as a truck driver and boxer prior to settling on the profession of architecture, despite never having taken formal training in the field.

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.

In 1969, he established the firm Tadao Ando Architects & Associates. In 1995, Ando won the Pritzker Architecture Prize, considered the highest distinction in the field of architecture. The Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually by the Hyatt Foundation to honor "a living Architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of those [1] He donated the $100,000 prize money to the orphans of the 1995 Kobe earthquake. The Great Hanshin Earthquake, or Kobe earthquake as it is more commonly known outside of Japan, was an Earthquake in Japan that occurred on Tuesday [2]

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Buildings and works

Tadao Ando's body of work is known for the creative use of natural light and for architectures that follow the natural forms of the landscape (rather than disturbing the landscape by making it conform to the constructed space of a building). The architect's buildings are often characterized by complex three-dimensional circulation paths. These paths interweave between interior and exterior spaces formed both inside large-scale geometric shapes and in the spaces between them.

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. Concrete is a construction material composed of Cement (commonly Portland cement) as well as other cementitious materials such as Fly ash and Slag It consists of three equally sized rectangular volumes: two enclosed 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.

Ando's housing complex at Rokko, just outside Kobe, is a complex warren of terraces and balconies and atriums and shafts. The designs for Rokko Housing One (1983) and for Rokko Housing Two (1993) illustrate a range of issues in the traditional architectural vocabulary -- the interplay of solid and void, the alternatives of open and closed, the contrasts of light and darkness. More significantly, Ando's noteworthy achievement in these clustered buildings is site specific -- the structures survived undamaged after the Great Hanshin Earthquake of 1995. The Great Hanshin Earthquake, or Kobe earthquake as it is more commonly known outside of Japan, was an Earthquake in Japan that occurred on Tuesday [3] New York Times architectural critic Paul Goldberger argues convincingly that "Ando is right in the Japanese tradition: spareness has always been a part of Japanese architecture, at least since the 16th century; [and] it is not for nothing that Frank Lloyd Wright more freely admitted to the influences of Japanese architecture than of anything American. "[3] Like Ando, Wright's site specific decision-making anticipated seismic activity; and like Ando's several Hyōgo-Awaji buildings, Wright's Imperial Hotel in Tokyo did survive the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. The struck the Kantō plain on the Japanese main island of Honshū at 1158 on the morning of September 1, 1923. [4]

Completed projects

In progress

Awards

References

  1. ^ Ando 1995, Prtizker Prize web page.
  2. ^ Muschamp, Herbert. (1995). "Among the Fountains with Tadao Ando; Concrete Dreams In the Sun King's Court," New York Times. September 21, 1995.
  3. ^ a b Goldberger, Paul. "Architecture View: 'Laureate' in a Land of Zen and Microchips," New York Times. April 23, 1995.
  4. ^ Bassin, Joan. "Frank Lloyd Wright's Imperial Hotel," National Building Museum exhibition.

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