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The AIA gratefully
acknowledges the
following sponsors
of our 150th Anniversary
celebration:
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Founders Circle:
$1,000,000:
McGraw-Hill
Construction,
Official Media
Sponsor
Autodesk,
Official Software
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Year Awarded: 2002
Born: ;
Osaka, Japan
Quote
Think carefully before you build something. We have to give back to the environment when we build. We must take great responsibility to care for the environment.
—2002 AIA National Convention
I have the somewhat arrogant belief that the way people lead lives can be directed, even if by a little, by means of architecture.
—Commenting on his belief that architects have a responsibility to both serve the client and protect the environment, at a session of the 2002 AIA National Convention
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• 2004: Chichu Art Museum, Naoshima, Kagawa prefecture,
Japan
• 2002: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth,
Texas
• 2001: Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Saint Louis,
Missouri
• 1998: Private residence: Eychaner/Lee House, Chicago
• 1992: Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Naoshima, Kagawa
prefecture, Japan
• 1992: Japanese Pavilion for Expo 92, Seville, Spain
• 1991: Water Temple, Awaji Island, Hyogo prefecture,
Japan
• 1989: Church of the Light, Ibaraki, Osaka prefecture,
Japan
• 1989: Children's Museum, Himeji, Hyogo prefecture,
Japan
• 1988: Church on the Water, Tomamu, Hokkaido prefecture,
Japan
• 1984: Festival, Naha, Okinawa prefecture, Japan
• 1976: Row House (Azuma House), Sumiyoshi, Osaka prefecture,
Japan
Biography
A book he purchased as a teenager about Le Corbusier and a trip
to Tokyo's Imperial Hotel, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright,
convinced Ando he wanted to be an architect. Because money was
tight, he was unable to go to university to study, so Ando studied
architecture independently: he travelled to see actual buildings
and read about them. He visited temples, shrines, and tea houses
throughout Japan, and he travelled to Europe, Africa, and the
United States; he kept detailed sketch books of all his travels, a
practice he continues today. He read books about such
architects as Le Corbusier, Mies van Der Rohe, Alvar Aalto, Louis
Kahn, and Frank Lloyd Wright.
In 1969 Ando established Tadao Ando Architect & Associates. His
earliest works were primarily residential projects. He has designed
most of his projects in Japan, mainly in and around the Osaka,
where he was raised and currently lives.
One of Ando’s first commissions was for a small row house in
Osaka, called Azuma House, which received the top prize of the
Architectural Institute of Japan in 1979.
Working primarily in reinforced concrete, Ando designs spaces in
unique new ways that allow constantly changing patterns of light
and wind in all his structures, from homes and apartment complexes
to places of worship, public museums, and commercial shopping
centers.
One of his most important projects, the Rokko Housing project, won
Japan's Cultural Design Prize in 1983. The project, located in
Kobe, Japan, and completed in 1993, was done in two phases—the
first phase has 20 units, each with a terrace but different in size
and layout; the second phase has 50 units. Its design is embedded
into a 60-degree sloping hillside, stepping down in terraces
overlooking Osaka Bay. The units, designed in a number of layouts
and with varying views, provide their residents with an open
feeling, without sacrificing privacy.
Ando has taught at Tokyo University, Yale, Harvard, and Columbia
University. He is an honorary fellow of the Royal Institute of
British Architects, the American Institute of Architects, the
American Academy, and the Institute of Arts and Letters.
During his career, Ando’s work has been published in 12
monographs and featured in more than 300 professional journals,
books, and catalogues. Some of his best-known projects include the
Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, the Modern Art Museum of Fort
Worth, Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, and the Eychaner/Lee House
in Chicago. He has earned numerous awards, including virtually
every award Japan can bestow for architecture and the arts, as well
as the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the RIBA Royal Gold Medal,
Denmark’s Carlsberg Architectural Prize, the Arnold W. Brunner
Memorial Prize from the American Academy of Art and Letters, and
the Gold Medal of Architecture from the French Acadamy of
Architecture.
Ando often uses cement as his primary building material, creating
unfinished reinforced concrete structures. He frequently uses uses
a geometric simplicity that is reflected in three-dimensional
circulation paths, and he maintains a connection to the natural
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