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Tadao Andô is a renowned Japanese architect who has designed numerous iconic buildings around the world. He is best known for his use of natural materials, such as wood, stone, and concrete, and for his minimalist designs. He has won numerous awards, including the Pritzker Prize in 1995. Andô was born on 13 September 1941 in Osaka, Japan. He studied at the University of Tokyo, graduating in 1969 with a degree in engineering. After graduation, he worked as an apprentice to architect Kiyonori Kikutake, and then opened his own architectural firm in 1969. Andô's first major project was the Azuma House in 1976, which was a minimalist design made of concrete and wood. This project was followed by the Church of the Light in 1989, which was made of concrete and glass. He has since designed numerous iconic buildings, including the Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum in 1992, the Chichu Art Museum in 2004, and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa in 2004. Andô has won numerous awards, including the Pritzker Prize in 1995, the Royal Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2002, and the Praemium Imperiale from the Japan Art Association in 2012. He has also been awarded honorary doctorates from numerous universities, including Harvard University, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Edinburgh. As of 2021, Tadao Andô's net worth is estimated to be roughly $20 million.

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Ando is right in the Japanese tradition: spareness has always been a part of Japanese architecture, at least since the 16th century; [and] it is not without reason that Frank Lloyd Wright more freely admitted to the influences of Japanese architecture than of anything American."

In 1995, Ando won the Pritzker Prize for architecture, considered the highest distinction in the field. He donated the $100,000 prize money to the orphans of the 1995 Kobe earthquake.

Besides Japanese religious architecture, Ando has also designed Christian churches, such as the Church of the Light (1989) and the Church in Tarumi (1993). Although Japanese and Christian churches display distinct characteristics, Ando treats them in a similar way. He believes there should be no difference in designing religious architecture and houses. As he explains,

Ando's housing complex at Rokko, just outside Kobe, is a complex warren of terraces and balconies, atriums and shafts. The designs for Rokko Housing One (1983) and for Rokko Housing Two (1993) illustrate a range of issues in traditional architectural vocabulary—the interplay of solid and void, the alternatives of open and closed, the contrasts of light and darkness. More significantly, Ando's noteworthy engineering achievement in these clustered buildings is site specific—the structures survived undamaged after the Great Hanshin earthquake of 1995. New York Times architectural critic Paul Goldberger argues that:

Tadao Andô was born on September 13, 1941 in Osaka, Japan.

Like Wright's Imperial Hotel in Tokyo Second Imperial Hotel 1923-1968, which did survive the Great Kantō earthquake of 1923, site specific decision-making, anticipates seismic activity in several of Ando's Hyōgo-Awaji buildings.