Tadao Ando is a Japanesearchitect who won the Pritzker Prize in 1995. Tadao Ando was born in Osaka,Japan on September 13, 1941. His life is legendary. He was a professional boxerbefore becoming an architect, and then a professional architect without propertraining. Use the prize money earned from boxing matches to travel to theUnited States, Europe, Africa and Asia, as well as to observe unique buildings.At that time, his photographs were used in the works of the architect LouisKahn.

After graduating from OsakaPolytechnic University, Tadao Ando traveled the world and taught himselfarchitecture. In 1969, he founded Tadao Ando Architecture Studio. He designedmany personal residence, which is located in Osaka, "long live auspicious house" for a highevaluation, large-scale public buildings to small individual residential work,many times to get Japanese architecture awards. Works range from museums,recreation facilities, religious facilities, offices, etc., and are usuallylarge scale buildings.

Tadao Ando fame began to accumulaterapidly as he published a succession of residential and commercial buildingsmade of plain concrete, generating buzz and discussion. Since then, he hasdeveloped his own unique architectural style: fair-faced concrete and geometricshapes, enjoying the reputation of "fair-faced concrete poet", he writes beautiful architectural poems. Simple, calm and composed, is his architectural blank. As a generation of master architects, Tadao Ando left a unique and great vitality for the world. His works and the spirit behind them are eternal and irrepressible.. In 1995, Mr. Ando won the Pritzker Prize, architecture's highesthonor, by donating $100,000 to orphans after the 1995 Kobe earthquake.