Architects and Designers
Tadao Ando
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Contemporary Minimalist
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A Japanese architect, born 1941 in Osaka, who trained himself in architecture without formal schooling after a career as a boxer and a visit to Frank Lloyd Wright's Imperial Hotel in Tokyo. His work is built almost entirely from finely finished exposed reinforced concrete, arranged to bring natural light and a sense of enclosure drawn from Japanese spatial tradition into otherwise minimal volumes.
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Defining ContributionA self-taught architect, formerly a boxer, known for minimalist buildings in exposed reinforced concrete that frame natural light and landscape, among them the Church of the Light (1989) and the Naoshima museums; won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1995 and donated the prize money to orphans of that year's Kobe earthquake. 2 Cross-Tradition Connections
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Ando's architecture is defined by finely finished exposed reinforced concrete used as both structure and surface finish at once.
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