Tadao Ando
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| - | :''[[Japanese counterculture]], [[Angura]], [[Japanese New Wave]], [[Tadao Ando]], [[Garo (magazine)]], [[Atsuko Tanaka (artist)]]'' | ||
| - | :''In the late 1980s and early 1990s, [[Yohji Yamamoto]] was involved a relationship with fellow Japanese avant-garde fashion designer [[Rei Kawakubo]]'' | ||
| - | ===Visual art in the postwar period=== | ||
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| - | In the 1950s and 1960s, Japan's artistic [[avant garde]] included the internationally influential [[Gutai group]], which originated or anticipated various postwar genres such as [[performance art]], [[installation art]], [[conceptual art]], and [[wearable art]]. | ||
| - | ==Post-war literature== | + | '''Tadao Ando''' (born [[September 13]], [[1941]], in [[Osaka]], [[Japan]]) is a [[Japanese people|Japanese]] [[architect]] whose approach to [[architecture]] was once categorized as [[critical regionalism]]. Ando has led a storied life, working as a truck driver and boxer prior to settling on the profession of architecture, despite never having taken formal training in the field. |
| - | Avant-garde writers, such as [[Kōbō Abe]], who wrote fantastic novels such as ''[[Woman in the Dunes]]'' (1960), wanted to express the Japanese experience in modern terms without using either international styles or traditional conventions, developed new inner visions. [[Yoshikichi Furui]] tellingly related the lives of alienated urban dwellers coping with the minutiae of daily life, while the psychodramas within such daily life crises have been explored by a rising number of important women novelists. | + | He works primarily in exposed cast-in-place concrete and is renowned for an exemplary craftsmanship which invokes a Japanese sense of materiality, junction and spatial narrative through the pared aesthetics of international modernism. |
| - | {{GFDL}} | + | In 1969, he established the firm Tadao Ando Architects & Associates. In 1995, Ando won the [[Pritzker Prize|Pritzker Architecture Prize]], considered the highest distinction in the field of architecture. He donated the $100,000 prize money to the orphans of the 1995 [[Great Hanshin earthquake|Kobe earthquake]]. {{GFDL}} |
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Tadao Ando (born September 13, 1941, in Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese architect whose approach to architecture was once categorized as critical regionalism. Ando has led a storied life, working as a truck driver and boxer prior to settling on the profession of architecture, despite never having taken formal training in the field.
He works primarily in exposed cast-in-place concrete and is renowned for an exemplary craftsmanship which invokes a Japanese sense of materiality, junction and spatial narrative through the pared aesthetics of international modernism.
In 1969, he established the firm Tadao Ando Architects & Associates. In 1995, Ando won the Pritzker Architecture Prize, considered the highest distinction in the field of architecture. He donated the $100,000 prize money to the orphans of the 1995 Kobe earthquake.
