I will be featuring my husband's favorite architects. Being an architect himself these great names and their timeless designs are a big influence to him. He calls them architectural prophets. Their simple and modern designs are just ageless. I will start with Tadao Ando.
TADAO ANDO
Tadao Ando was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1941. He was the first born of twin boys. From ages 10 to 17 Ando spent his time mostly making wood models of ships, airplanes, and moulds, learning the craft from a carpenter whose shop was across the street from his home. 1962-1969, by his early twenties, Ando had decided on a self-directed course of architectural study that took him throughout Japan to visit temples, shrines, and tea houses, to Europe, Africa and to the United States. He was studying architecture by going to see actual buildings, and reading books about works of architects such as Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, Alvar Aalto, Frank Lloyd wright, and Louis Kahn before returning to osaka at the age of 28 to open his own studio, Tadao ando Architect & Associates. Tadao Ando has been a visiting professor at Tokyo University, Yale, Harvard, and Columbia.
The Modern Art Museum Of Forth Woth Texas
21 21 Design Sight, Tokyo
Water Temple
Historical Meuseum
The new building for the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts is the first public structure in the United States by Japanese architect Tadao Ando.
Times Building, Kyoto
Hyogo Prefetural Museum
La Collezione
Church Of Light
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