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Tadao Ando

Architect; Pritzker Prize laureate, 1995

Japan · b. 1941

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Japanese architect, self-taught, known for buildings in reinforced concrete including the Church of the Light, the Row House in Sumiyoshi and the Chichu Art Museum. He was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1995 and donated the prize money to a foundation for children orphaned by that year's Hanshin earthquake.

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For me, making architecture is the same as thinking. For more than thirty years, I have been making architecture by going back and forth between ideals and reality, between the fictive and the substantive. My hope has been and continues to be, not only to solve realistic problems, but also to pursue the ideal by overlaying speculative imaginings.

Recorded Grand Trianon Palace, Versailles, 22 May 1995, The Hyatt Foundation / The Pritzker Architecture Prize, 22 May 1995 source ↗

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