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Name: Tadao Ando
Birth Date: September 13, 1941
Place of Birth: Osaka, Japan
Nationality: Japanese
Gender: Male
Occupations: architect

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Biography of Tadao Ando
1,657 words, approx. 6 pages
Tadao Ando (born 1941) is one of the most renowned contemporary Japanese architects. His designs are often compared to those of Louis Kahn and Le Corbusier and obviously take some inspiration from their work. Characteristics of his work include large...


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Ando Tadao Summary
245 words, approx. 1 pages
(b. 1941), Japanese architect. Ando Tadao was born in Osaka on 13 September 1941. Unlike most contemporary architects, Ando did not receive any formal architectural training but was a carpenter's apprentice for a short time, during which he...
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Tadao Ando Information
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Tadao Ando (安藤忠雄, Andō Tadao?, born September 13, 1941 in Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese architect whose approach to architecture was once categorised as Critical Regionalism. Ando has led a storied life, working as a truck driver and boxer prior...


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The Architects' Journal
Tadao Ando: Creating Dreams
11/01/2007: 426 words, approx. 1 pages
LECTURE Christine Murray hears Ando discuss trees and art Tadao Ando: Creating Dreams, RA, London W1J, 26 October www.royalacademy.org.uk Tadao Ando made much of his beginnings as a professional boxer, his lack of formal architecture training and his new incarnation as...
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The Economist (US)
Raging bull: architecture. (Tadao Ando; Pompidou Centre, Paris, France)
03/20/1993: 453 words, approx. 2 pages
The Tadao Ando retrospective reveals his motivations and modernist innovations. It includes architectural sketches, and will travel to Royal Institute of British Architects, London, on Jun 29, 1993. FOR those who despair of post-modern architects with their penchant for buildings decorated with references...
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AP Features
Wright in Oklahoma: Price Tower
4/9/2007: 921 words, approx. 3 pages
The Price Tower, a 19-story building in Bartlesville, Okla., designed by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright, has been designated a National Historic Landmark.Fewer than 2,500 historic places in the United States bear the National Historic Landmark designation, the highest such recognition accorded by the federal...
 


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