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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". He is the winner of the 1995 Pritzker Prize.
The one element carried through Tadao Ando's structures is his idolization of the reinforced concrete wall. The importance given to walls is a distinct departure from Modernist architecture. They are usually made of 'in-situ' poured in place concrete. Considerable care is taken to see that the walls are as perfect as technique will allow.
AIA Gold Medal – William Wayne Caudill (posthumous); Alvar Aalto Medal – Tadao Ando; Architecture Firm Award – Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown; Grand prix national de l'architecture – Michel Andrault and Pierre Parat
The phenomenology of architecture is the philosophical study of architecture employing the methods of phenomenology. David Seamon defines it as "the descriptive and interpretive explication of architectural experiences, situations, and meanings as constituted by qualities and features of both the built environment and human life".
It was designed by Tadao Ando, [1] [2] who had begun planning for the project (as a park) prior to the earthquake. [3] The hotel is operated as the Westin Awaji Island Resort [ ja ] . Etymology
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 ...
Ando said he designed the museum to express gratitude for the architecture and its beautiful natural environment. [ 2 ] The museum, which is composed of a welcome center, flower garden, water garden, meditation hall, stone garden, main building, and James Turrell exhibition hall, focuses on the interaction of art and nature.
Row House in Sumiyoshi (住吉の長屋, Sumiyoshi no Nagaya), also called Azuma House (Japanese 東邸), is a personal residence in Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka, Japan.It was designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando in his early career.