Tadao Ando

Tadao Ando is a Japanese architect. He was born in Osaka in 1941. Before he designed buildings, he had many other important experiences in his life. He became a professional boxer as a teenager and spent time in Thailand fighting. He then traveled around the world to learn about buildings. Ando became successful in the 1970s and has built buildings all over the world.

In 1995, Ando won the Pritzker Prize in 1995.Pritzker Architecture Prize,  "Tadao Ando, 1995 Laureate"; retrieved 2013-3-27.

References

Further reading

 Ando, (2006) Taschen Books, Masao Furuyama, .

Category:Japanese architects
Category:1941 births
Category:Living people
Category:People from Osaka
Category:Pritzker Architecture Prize winners