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        1. Tadao ando age
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          6. Tadao Ando | Great contemporary architects

          Tadao Ando is considered the architect that best represents the minimalist movement, which is made of pure shapes and essential elements.

          He is the only architect to have won the discipline’s four most prestigious prizes: the Pritzker (1995), Carlsberg (1992), Praemium Imperiale (1996), and Kyoto Prize (2002).

          Born in Osaka in 1941, Tadao Ando gave up his career as a professional boxer in 1965 in order to follow his passion for architecture. Therefore he decided to embark on a long journey around the world to teach himself the architectural profession.

          This “grand tour” was precisely the beginning of his training as an architect, until he started his first architectural firm in his home city in 1969.

          TADAO ANDO AND HIS FIRST WORKS

          At the beginning of his career, most of his works were dedicated to the designing of single-family houses, among which we should mention Tomishima House in Osaka, that was built in 1973 and la