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Tadao Ando (安藤 忠雄, Andō Tadao, born 13 September 1941) is a Japanese autodidact architect [1] [2] whose approach to architecture and landscape was categorized by architectural historian Francesco Dal Co as "critical regionalism".
Because Ando's concrete is so precisely wrought and so smooth and reflective, it produces an illusion of a taut, textile surface rather than presenting it as a heavy earthbound mass. Ando has his own teams of expert carpenters to make the formwork who compete against each other; even so, his walls contain imperfections and are uneven."
An identical house (4x4 house II) was commissioned to Ando Tadao by the neighbor of the adjacent plot (built in 2004), but the two twin houses were built using different materials. The 4x4 has a staircase and is made of concrete, and its copy has an elevator and is made of wood (laminated pine from Oregon and Paulownia wood).
Completed in October 2001 after four years of construction and nearly ten of planning, the Pulitzer Arts Foundation was the first public building in United States to be designed by architect Tadao Ando, who won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1995. The building is characterized by Ando's longstanding attention to natural elements such as ...
Tadao Ando Reflecting pool The Hill of the Buddha ( Japanese : 頭大仏 , Hepburn : Atama Daibutsu , "Large Buddha's Head") is a Buddhist shrine at Makomanai Takino Cemetery ( Japanese : 真駒内滝野霊園 ) in Sapporo , Japan, designed by Japanese modernist architect Tadao Ando . [ 1 ]
Architect Raëd Abillama cites Tadao Ando as one of his biggest influences, ... She maintained and restored all the original details, including the conical fireplace, but brought in her own punchy ...
The museum has two additional galleries for rotating exhibitions. The triangular-shaped building was designed by award-winning architect Tadao Ando. [1] Some features of the museum architecture include a free-standing staircase and a triangular skylight which greet visitors as they enter the building.
In 2021, when the “Heartless” rapper bought the 4,000-square-foot oceanfront home at 24844 Malibu Road, it bore all the hallmarks of Ando’s style, like modernist lines and plenty of ...