Tadao Ando is a Japanese architect. He is self-taught. Ando was born moments before his twin in Osaka, Japan in 1941. While pursuing a carreer in boxing, during his second year of high school he visited Frank Lloyd Wright’s Imperial Hotel in Tokyo. Awe struck, he abandoned boxing and took up architecture. His approach is said to be critical regionalism. His style is haiku which places emphasis on the space around the structure. In 1995 he won the Pritzker Prize.
Critical regionalism: a style which counters that of the International Style as well as the ornamentation of the Postmodearn architecutre. Modern but respectul of the context in which they are situated.
Haiku: placing importance not only on the shape but on the absence of it and the justaposition thereof.
House in Shiga Ostu,
2006
Shiga, Japan
Omotesando Hills
Tokyo, Japan
2006
Saka No Ue Kumo Museum
Matsuyama, Ehime, Japan
2006
Ando 21 21 Design Sight
Minato, Tokyo, Japan
2007
Genius Loci
Seopjikoji, South Korea
2008
Glass House
Seopjikoji, South Korea
2008
Gate of Creation
Monterrey, Mexico
2009
Cerro Pelon Ranch
House, Stable, and Mausoleum of Tom Ford
Click on link to be taken to amazing video and additional pics. The house and ranch is set on 20,000 acres is amazing. $75,000,000 worth of amazing.
New Mexio
2009
Kaminoge Station
Tokyo, Japan
2011
Museum of Art
Akita, Japan
2012
Asia University Museaum of Arts
Wufeing, Taichung, Taiwan
2012
Bonte Museum
Seogwipo, South Korea
2012
Centro Roberto Garza Sada of Art Architecture and Design
Monterrey, Mexico
2012
Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, Masschusetts
2014
Poly Grand Shanghai Theatre
Shanghai, China
2014
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