Tadao Ando

Tadao Ando (安藤忠雄 Andō Tadao, born September 13, 1941 in Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese architect whose approach to architecture is sometimes categorised as Critical Regionalism. Ando has led a storied life, working as truck driver and boxer before settling on the profession of architecture without having taken formal training.

Buildings and works

Completed

• Row House (Azuma House), Sumiyoshi, Osaka prefecture, Japan, 1976
• Rokko Housing One, Rokko, Hyogo prefecture, Japan, 1983
• Festival, Naha, Okinawa prefecture, Japan, 1984
• Church on the Water, Tomamu, Hokkaido prefecture, Japan, 1988
• GALLERIA akka, Osaka, Japan, 1988
• Children's Museum, Himeji, Hyogo prefecture, Japan, 1989
• Church of the Light, Ibaraki, Osaka prefecture, Japan, 1989 http://architecture.mit.edu/~barandon/4.203/overview_page.htm http://www.arch.mcgill.ca/prof/mellin/arch671/winter2000/mchan/precedents/ando.html
• Collezione, Tokyo, Japan, 1989
• Water Temple, Awaji Island, Hyogo prefecture, Japan, 1991 http://www.floornature.com/worldaround/articolo.php/art34/3/en/arch
• Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Naoshima, Kagawa prefecture, Japan, 1992 http://www.naoshima-is.co.jp/english/ http://www.architectureweek.com/2001/0314/design_2-2.html
• Japanese Pavilion for Expo 92, Seville, Spain, 1992
• Rokko Housing Two, Rokko, Kobe, Japan, 1993
• Private residence, Chicago, Illinois, 1997
• Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Saint Louis, Missouri, 2001 http://www.pulitzerarts.org/architecture.htm
• Ryotaro Shiba Memorial Museum, Higashiosaka, Osaka prefecture, Japan, 2001
• Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas, 2002 http://www.themodern.org/newando.html
• Chichu Art Museum, Naoshima, Kagawa prefecture, Japan, 2004 http://www.chichu.jp/

In progress

• Jingumae 4-Chome Project, Tokyo, Japan (expected completion in January 2006) http://www.mori.co.jp/projects/jingumae/en_index.html
• House, stable, and mausoleum for former fashion designer Tom Ford, near Santa Fe, New Mexico
• Expansion for the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts