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Tadao Ando

Tadao Ando (Architect) born Osaka, Japan 1941

Buildings / Works

Azuma House, at Osaka, Japan, 1976. [1] (http://www.andotadao.org) Festival, at Naha Okinawa, Japan, 1984. Rokko Housing One, at Rokko Kobe, Japan, 1983. Children's Museum, at Himeji, Hyogo, Japan, 1988 to 1989 Rokko Housing Two, at Rokko Kobe, Japan Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, at Naoshima, Japan, 1989 to 1992, 1997 Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, at St. Louis, Missouri, 2001 Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, at Fort Worth, Texas, 2002

Details Recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, 1995. Recipient of the AIA Gold Medal, 2002.

Tadao Ando Architect & Associates 5-23 Toyosaki 2-Chome Kita-ku Osaka 531-0072 Japan vox +81 6 6375 1148 fax +81 6 6374 6240

References Kenneth Frampton. Tadao Ando: Buildings, Projects, Writings. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1984. ISBN 0-8478-0547-6. NA1559.1514. Randall J. Van Vynckt. International Dictionary of Architects and Architecture. London: St. James Press, 1993. ISBN 1-55862-087-7. NA40.I48 1993.

[2] (http://www.andotadao.org) [3] (http://www.greatbuildings.com/architects/Tadao_Ando) [4] (http://www.archinform.net/arch/474.htm?ID=bb1e44f1678bc71d8454e316b9a68a0b) links to projects



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