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Tadao Ando

1941– · Japanese architect · Japan

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The Japanese architect Tadao Ando at the opening of the Langen Foundation's art exhibition house, Germany, in summer 2004.
Christopher Schriner from Köln, Deutschland · Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0 · Source

Bio

Known for concrete, light, geometry and carefully choreographed relationships between architecture and landscape.

Key works

  • Church of the Light
  • Chichu Art Museum

THE RETHINK

Tadao Ando helps us rethink architecture as more than the production of buildings: their work shows how decisions about structure, space, materials, context or public life can change what a society considers possible.

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Tadao Ando changed architecture through ideas, buildings and approaches that still shape how we understand space.
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