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Architect

Tadao Ando

A self-taught architect known for elemental concrete volumes, calibrated natural light, and intense spatial sequencing.

Born 1941

Japanese

Osaka, Japan

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Gallery

Street-facing concrete facade of Azuma House in Osaka, with the narrow opening and enclosed volume visible from the front.

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Azuma House exterior view

Front elevation of Azuma House in Sumiyoshi, Osaka.

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Onomichi City Museum of Art in Onomichi, Japan

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Onomichi City Museum of Art image

Museum in Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan

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Church on the Water in Shimukappu, Japan

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Church on the Water image

Church in Yufutsu District, Hokkaido, Japan

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Interior view of the Church of the Light with the luminous cruciform opening cut into the concrete wall.

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Church of the Light interior view

Interior view of the cruciform light opening in the Church of the Light.

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Benesse House in Naoshima, Japan

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Benesse House image

Art museum and hotel in Naoshima, Japan

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Kumamoto Prefectural Ancient Burial Mound Museum in Yamaga, Japan

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Kumamoto Prefectural Ancient Burial Mound Museum image

Museum in Kumamoto, Japan

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Osaka Prefectural Chikatsu Asuka Museum in Kanan, Japan

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Osaka Prefectural Chikatsu Asuka Museum image

Building in Ōsaka Prefecture, Japan

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Nagaragawa Convention Center in Gifu, Japan

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Nagaragawa Convention Center image

Convention center in the city of Gifu, Japan

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Works

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Bureaus

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Books

Bureaus

Bureau

Tadao Ando Architect & Associates

practice · Osaka, Japan

Role: founder

Years: 1969

Founder relationship

Selected works

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Row House in Sumiyoshi

1976 · Osaka, Japan

House

Tadao Ando

Onomichi City Museum of Art

1980 · Onomichi, Japan

Museum

Tadao Ando

Church on the Water

1988 · Shimukappu, Japan

Sacred building

Tadao Ando

Church of the Light

1989 · Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan

Church

Tadao Ando

Benesse House

1992 · Naoshima, Japan

Museum

Tadao Ando

Kumamoto Prefectural Ancient Burial Mound Museum

1992 · Yamaga, Japan

Museum

Tadao Ando

Osaka Prefectural Chikatsu Asuka Museum

1994 · Kanan, Japan

Museum

Tadao Ando

Nagaragawa Convention Center

1995 · Gifu, Japan

Architecture

Tadao Ando

Kiseki No Hoshi Greenhouse

2000 · Awaji, Japan

Museum

Tadao Ando

Hyōgo Prefectural Museum of Art

2002 · Wakinohama Kaigandōri, Japan

Museum

Tadao Ando

Langen Foundation

2002 · Neuss, Germany

Museum

Tadao Ando

Chichu Art Museum

2004 · Naoshima, Japan

Museum

Tadao Ando

Books

Book

theory

Tadao Ando: Complete Works

Francesco Dal Co · 1995

Monographs