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Tadao Ando
* Osaka, Japan [Nihon/Nippon], 13 September 1941
nationality: japanese
Tadao Ando Architect & Associates
5-23, Toyosaki 2-Chome - Kita-ku
531-0072 Osaka - Japan [Nihon/Nippon]
Tel: +81.6.6375.1148 - Fax: +81.6.6374.6240
AWARDS
 
2005
Médaille d'or
Union internationale des architectes (UIA)
2002
AIA Gold Medal
The American Institute of Architects
1997
Royal Gold Medal
RIBA - Royal Institute of British Architects
1996
Praemium Imperiale
Architecture

Japan Art Association
1995
Pritzker Architecture Prize
1992
Carlsberg Prize
1985
Alvar Aalto Medal
Museum of Finnish Architecture
Finnish Association of Architects (SAFA)
BUILDINGS
 
2006 - 2012
United Arab Emirates [Al-Imarat al-'Arabiya al Muttahida] » Abu-Dhabi [Abū Ẓabī]
2006 - 2009
Italy [Italia] » Venice [Venezia]
2005 - 2006
United States » New York - Manhattan
2001 - 2003
Japan [Nihon/Nippon] » Kobe
1996 - 2002
Museum of Modern Art
United States » Fort Worth
1996 - 2002
Japan [Nihon/Nippon] » Tōkyō
1997 - 2001
Japan [Nihon/Nippon] » Kobe
2001
Italy [Italia] » Milan [Milano]
1995 - 2001
United States » Saint Louis
1992 - 2000
Italy [Italia] » Villorba
1993 - 2000
Japan [Nihon/Nippon] » Awaji
1998 - 2000
Japan [Nihon/Nippon] » Saijō
1997 - 1999
Japan [Nihon/Nippon] » Ōsaka
1997 - 1998
Japan [Nihon/Nippon] » Hino Town (Gamo-gun)
1991 - 1997
Japan [Nihon/Nippon] » Gojyo
1994 - 1997
Japan [Nihon/Nippon] » Tsuna
1992 - 1997
United States » Chicago
1989 - 1993
Conference Center
Germany [Deutschland] » Weil-am-Rhein
1987 - 1989
Japan [Nihon/Nippon] » Ōsaka
1987 - 1989
Japan [Nihon/Nippon] » Himeji
1978 - 1984
Japan [Nihon/Nippon] » Ashiya
1978 - 1983
Japan [Nihon/Nippon] » Kobe
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
 
WRITINGS
BY THE ARCHITECT
Tadao Ando, "Maritime Museum by Tadao Ando", A+. Architecture Plus. Architecture of a New World 16, 2007, "Architecture - Big Story" pp. 58-61 ( 46-61)
Tadao Ando, "Guest house for Koshino House, Ashiya, Hyogo, Japan", GA Houses 94, july 2006, pp. 74-85
Tadao Ando, "Tadao Ando su Shiro Kuramata", Domus 858, aprile/april 2003, pp. 118-120 (106-129)
Tadao Ando, "Presentazione", in David Lloyd Jones, Atlante di bioarchitettura, UTET, Torino 2002
Tadao Ando, "Progetto per il Modern Art Museum di Fort Worth", Casabella 653, febbraio/february 1998, "Architettura e progetti" pp. 14-21 (12-29)
Tadao Ando, in AA.VV., Emilio Ambasz. Architettura e design. Per una riconciliazione con la natura, Electa, Milano 1995, pp. XXVI-XXVII
Tadao Ando, "The Agony of Sustained Thought: The Difficulty of Perservering", in GA Document 39, may 1994

tr. it. "Difficile perseveranza", in Francesco Dal Co, Tadao Ando. Le opere, gli scritti, la critica, Electa, Milano 1994, pp 472-473
Tadao Ando, "Licht", in Jahrbuch für Licht und Architektur, Berlin 1993

tr. it. "Luce", in Francesco Dal Co, Tadao Ando. Le opere, gli scritti, la critica, Electa, Milano 1994, pp. 470-471
Tadao Ando, "The Power of the Unrealized Vision", in SD Space Design 333, june 1992

tr. it. "Il potere delle cose irrealizzate", in Francesco Dal Co, Tadao Ando. Le opere, gli scritti, la critica, Electa, Milano 1994, p. 466
Tadao Ando, "Sul progetto di architettura/On designing", Domus 738, maggio/may 1992, pp. 17-24
Tadao Ando, "L'education du paysage/Learning from the landscape", L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui 279, février/february 1992, pp. 11-18
Tadao Ando, "Probing, Through Sensibility, Every Manner of Phenomenon" in Tadao Ando. Beyond Horizons in Architecture, Tokyo 1992

tr. it. "Sperimentare attraverso la sensibiità", in Francesco Dal Co, Tadao Ando. Le opere, gli scritti, la critica, Electa, Milano 1994, p. 467
Tadao Ando, "From the Periphery of Architecture", in The Japan Architect 1, january 1991

tr. it. "Dalla periferia dell'architettura", in Francesco Dal Co, Tadao Ando. Le opere, gli scritti, la critica, Electa, Milano 1994, pp. 462-465
Tadao Ando, "Light, shadow and form: the Koshino House", in Via 11, 1990

tr. it. "Luce, ombra, forma", in Francesco Dal Co, Tadao Ando. Le opere, gli scritti, la critica, Electa, Milano 1994, p. 458
Tadao Ando, "Composición Espacial y Naturaleza", in El Croquis 44, 1990

tr. it. "Natura e composizione", in Francesco Dal Co, Tadao Ando. Le opere, gli scritti, la critica, Electa, Milano 1994, p. 457
Tadao Ando, "Natur und Architektur", in Tadao Ando. Sketches, Zeichnungen, Birkhäuser, Basel, Boston 1990

tr. it. "Natura e architettura", in Francesco Dal Co, Tadao Ando. Le opere, gli scritti, la critica, Electa, Milano 1994, p.460
Tadao Ando, "From the Chapel on the Water to the Chapel with the Light", in The Japan Architect 386, june 1989

tr. it. "La cappella sull'acqua e la chiesa della luce", in Francesco Dal Co, Tadao Ando. Le opere, gli scritti, la critica, Electa, Milano 1994 p. 455
Tadao Ando, "Représentation et Abstraction", in L'architecture d'Aujourd'hui 255, février 1988

tr. it. "Figurazione e astrazione", in Francesco Dal Co, Tadao Ando. Le opere, gli scritti, la critica, Electa, Milano 1994, p. 454
Tadao Ando, "Shintai and Space", in Architecture and Body, Rizzoli, New York 1988

tr. it. ""Shintai" e spazio", in Francesco Dal Co, Tadao Ando. Le opere, gli scritti, la critica, Electa, Milano 1994, p. 453
Tadao Ando, "The Koshino residence 1981/1984", JA. The Japan Architect 342, october 1985, pp. 22-29
Tadao Ando, “Introduction”, in Tadao Ando. Buildings, Projects, Writings, New York 1984

tr. it. “Interno, esterno”, in Francesco Dal Co, Tadao Ando. Le opere, gli scritti, la critica, Electa, Milano 1994, p. 449
Tadao Ando, From Self-Enclosed Modern Architecture Towards Universality”, in The Japan Architect 301, may 1982

tr. it. Al di là del mondo chiuso dell’architettura moderna”, in Francesco Dal Co, Tadao Ando. Le opere, gli scritti, la critica, Electa, Milano 1994, pp. 446-448
Tadao Ando, The Wall as Territorial Delineation, in The Japan Architect 254, June 1978
tr. it. Il muro come limite di un territorio”, in Francesco Dal Co, Tadao Ando. Le opere, gli scritti, la critica, Electa, Milano 1994, p. 445
Tadao Ando, A Wedge in Circumstances”, in The Japan Architect 243, June 1977

tr. it. “Un cuneo nelle circostanze”, in Francesco Dal Co, Tadao Ando. Le opere, gli scritti, la critica, Electa, Milano 1994, p. 444
WRITINGS
ABOUT THE ARCHITECT
Frédéric Migayrou (ed.), Tadao Ando, Centre Pompidou Flammarion Editions-Bourse de Commerce/Collection Pinault, Paris 2018
GA Architect. Tadao Ando. 2001-2007, A.D.A. Edita, Tokyo 2012
Francesco Dal Co, Tadao Ando per François Pinault. Dall’Ile Seguin a Punta della Dogana, Electa-Palazzo Grassi, Milano/Venezia 2009
Philip Jodidio, Ando. Complete Works, Taschen, Köln 2007
Masao Furuyama. Peter Gössel (ed.), Ando, Taschen, 2006
Richard Pare, Tadao Ando. I colori della luce, Phaidon, 2003
Lorenzo Dall'Olio, Tadao Ando. Antinomie senza contrasto, Testo & Immagine, "Universale di architettura", 2002
Philip Jodidio. "Architecture Now! vol.2", Taschen, Köln 2002, pp. 26-39
Philip Jodidio, Architecture Now!, Taschen, Köln 2001, pp. 18-31
Marina Fumo, Francesco Polverino, Tadao Ando. Architettura e tecnica, CLEAN Edizioni, 2000
Francesco Dal Co, Tadao Ando. Le opere, gli scritti, la critica, Electa, Milano 1994
G. Tironi, Tadao Ando. Ombres Portées, Halle Sud, Genève 1988
AA.VV.,Tadao Ando: Breathing Geometry, 9H Gallery, London 1986
AA.VV., Tadao Ando. Buildings, Projects, Writings, Rizzoli, New York 1984
AA.VV., Tadao Ando. Minimalisme, Electa Moniteur, Paris 1982
AA.VV., Tadao Ando. Obras y proyectos, Museo Español de Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid 1982
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THE ARCHITECT IN CINEMA
 
Title
  Just Meet
Directed by
Fernanda Romandía
Nationality
Mexico
Year of production
2018
Cast
Tadao Ando
Architect's role
Protagonist
Title
  Tadao Ando. From Emptiness to Infinity
Directed by
Mathias Frick
Nationality
Germany
Year of production
2013
Cast
Tadao Ando
Architect's role
Protagonist

“The essence of architecture is to open the hearts of the people,” says Japanese minimalist master Tadao Ando, “and to move them in such a way that they are glad to be on Earth.”

Tadao Ando: From Emptiness to Infinity, a 2013 documentary by German filmmaker Mathias Frick, offers an exclusive behind-the-scenes look into the work and processes of Ando, the only architect to have won the discipline’s four most prestigious prizes: the Pritzker, Carlsberg, Praemium Imperiale, and Kyoto Prize.

Ando’s unprecedented use of concrete, wood, water, light, space, and natural forms creates a Zen-like connection between Japanese traditions and contemporary modernism. His creative use of natural light and his buildings’ ability to seamlessly evoke the contours of the landscape are his calling cards, and give Ando's award-winning homes, churches, museums, apartment buildings and cultural spaces an open, inviting quality that belies the structures' minimalist construction.

"To change the dwelling is to change the city and to reform society,” Ando says, noting that his deceptively simple buildings are meant to give people space to live and unfold in a contemplative manner. By taking viewers into the architect’s thought processes and motivations, the documentary delves into the nature of how those changes have been woven throughout Ando’s four-decade-long career.

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EXHIBITIONS
 
 
Youth. Tadao Ando, Museum San, Oak Valley, South Korea, 1 april / 30 july 2023
The Challenge. Tadao Ando, Milano, Armani / Silos, 9 april / 28 july 2019
Ando and Le Corbusier: Masters of Architecture, Chicago, Wrightwood 659, 12 october / 15 december 2018
Tadao Ando. Le défi / The Challenge, Paris, Centre Pompidou, Galerie 3, 10 october / 31 december 2018


Tadao Ando: Endeavors, Tokyo, National Art Center, 27 september / 18 december 2017
Tadao Ando Architecture Exhibition, Milano, Duvetica Store e Showroom, 17 / 22 april 2012
Designed by Ando, København [Copenhagen], Design Museum Danmark, 25 november 2011 / 19 february 2012
Tadao Ando Architecture. Challanges. Faithful to the basis, Tokyo, Gallery MA, 3 october/20 december 2008
 
 
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