Biography of Tadao Ando

194 1 was born in osaka, Japan in September 13.

1957 or so, began to practice professional boxing.

1959 ~ 196 1 year, visited traditional Japanese architecture.

1962 ~ 1969, studying in America, Europe and Africa.

1969, Tadao Ando Architectural Office).

Tadao Ando School of Architecture was founded in Osaka from 65438 to 0969, and designed many individual residences. Among them, Nagaya in Osaka received rave reviews.

In the1980s around Kansai (especially Kobe? Kitano-machi and Shinsaibashi in Osaka have designed many commercial facilities, temples and churches.

1987—— Visiting professor at Yale University.

1988—— Visiting professor at Columbia University.

After 1990, the design cases of public buildings, art galleries and overseas buildings began to increase.

1989- Visiting Professor, Harvard University.

1995-won the Pritzker Architecture Award.

1997—— Taught in the Department of Architecture, Tokyo University, Japan, and once served as a professor in the Department of Engineering, Tokyo University.

1997-2003- Retired from Tokyo University and became an honorary professor.

2005-Received a lifetime special honorary professor from the University of Tokyo.

20 1 1 year-as a visiting professor at southeast university.

Tadao Ando, after graduating from high school, attended Semi Mode seminar (a seminar founded by university professors, which belongs to a kind of university education). Semi Mode workshop was founded by the late Changze Festival and is called "Legendary Art School". Graduates include Kazuo Iino, Grandfather Kim, Takayuki Simen, yohji yamamoto and others. Now most graduates are active in the front line of the industry. After that, I learned the skills of interior design and drawing by using various paragraphs alone. Before becoming an architect, I worked as an interior designer in many teahouses and cafes around Kansai.

Tadao Ando is a legend. When I was a child, my family was poor and I spent my childhood in a wooden workshop. Before becoming an architect, he used to be a truck driver and a professional boxer (score: 13 wins, 3 losses, 7 draws and 23 battles), and then he became a professional architect without formal training. Because of this, Tadao Ando is called "a Japanese genius without culture". Tadao Ando used the prize money won in boxing to travel to the United States, Europe, Africa and Asia, and also observed the unique buildings in various places. At that time, his photos were used in the works of architect Louis Kahn. Tadao Ando is the brother of twins. The younger brother of the twins is Qiao Xiong Beishan, who opened the Beishan Creative Research Institute in Tokyo, dealing with business consultants and commodity design. The youngest of the three brothers is architect Beishan Kojiro (because of his relationship with American architect Peter; Eisenmann's cooperation is famous). Original architectural works-Rose Garden (ローズガーデン, Rose Garden; Located in Morita District, Kobe City, 1977, I cooperate with Hamano Commodity Research Institute to which my brother Qiao Xiong belongs.

Tadao Ando taught himself architecture. Tadao Ando School of Architecture was founded in 1969. 1976, the yuzhi dragon house in osaka prefecture was completed. It's a two-story concrete house, and its design style has already appeared. Later, it was awarded by the Japanese Architectural Society. /kloc-participated in the design of commercial buildings in the surrounding areas of Kansai (Kitano, Kobe, Shinsaibashi, Osaka) during the 1980s, and participated in large-scale projects such as public buildings and art museum buildings after the 1990s.

Later, residential and commercial buildings built with fair-faced concrete came out one after another, which caused people's commotion and discussion, and reputation began to accumulate rapidly. From museums, entertainment facilities, religious facilities, offices, etc. The project covers a wide range, usually a large building. However, some people think that the unique charm of Ando's early small building has been lost.

1995, Tadao Ando won the Pritzker Prize, the highest honor in architecture. He donated $654.38 million to orphans after the Kobe earthquake in 1995.