Tadao Ando: a master is born Ando, who was born in Osaka in 1941, arrived on the global scene during the zenith of the decorative excesses of post- modernism in the 1980s. His work, with its austere ...

Tadao Ando’s MPavilion 2023 'The design for the MPavilion began with a desire to find a scene of eternity within the oasis of Melbourne, the Queen Victoria Gardens. Eternal, not in material or ...

Great buildings caught his eye, in particular, the works of Le Corbusier – the Swiss-French Purist whose concrete designs later inspired Ando’s own. The Japanese architect famously named his ...

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WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS.— Japanese architect Tadao Ando has built an international reputation for designs that are harmonious with natural settings and sympathetic to surrounding structures. In Texas ...

The concept of surrounding buildings with reflecting pools has turned into an important design element to Ando, contributing animation – for example at the Komyoji Temple in Saijo (2000) with ...

World-renowned architect Tadao Ando said devastation wrought by March 11 is an opportunity for Japan to revitalize Tohoku and simultaneously rebuild the country.

In the following decade, Ando built six more public buildings there, abandoned homes were turned into guesthouses, Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama famously installed one of her polka dot pumpkins at ...

Tadao Ando’s seven-story condominium at 152 Elizabeth Street, expected to open in spring 2017, will be his first New York building, and his first multifamily project outside of Asia.