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Osaka

A city of compact urban fabric and precise domestic experiments, central to Tadao Ando's early residential and civic work.

Osaka, Japan

Asia/Tokyo

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Ibaraki

Osaka Prefecture, Japan

1 works · 1 books

A quieter city in the Osaka region that holds one of the defining religious buildings of late twentieth-century architecture.

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Kanazawa

Ishikawa, Japan

1 works · 1 books

A historic city where SANAA's museum project reframed the contemporary art institution as an open public field.

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Tokyo

Tokyo, Japan

1 bureaus · 1 books

A laboratory for fine-grained contemporary practice, where lightweight domestic, institutional, and office experiments continually reshape the discipline.

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Street-facing concrete facade of Azuma House in Osaka, with the narrow opening and enclosed volume visible from the front.

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Osaka gallery

Azuma House exterior view

Front elevation of Azuma House in Sumiyoshi, Osaka.

Credit: Oiuysdfg

Rights: CC BY-SA 3.0 · licensed

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Row House in Sumiyoshi

1976 · Osaka, Japan

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Tadao Ando

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Tadao Ando Architect & Associates

practice · Osaka, Japan

1969

A practice whose work ranges from houses and chapels to museums, civic buildings, and international commissions.

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Tadao Ando

Born 1941 · Osaka, Japan

A self-taught architect known for elemental concrete volumes, calibrated natural light, and intense spatial sequencing.

Tadao Ando: Complete Works 1975-Today

Philip Jodidio · 2020 · Taschen

Cologne

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