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Tadao Ando

Architect; Pritzker Prize laureate, 1995

Japan · b. 1941

Japanese architect, self-taught, known for buildings in reinforced concrete including the Church of the Light, the Row House in Sumiyoshi and the Chichu Art Museum. He was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1995 and donated the prize money to a foundation for children orphaned by that year's Hanshin earthquake.

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What is something everyone in your world agrees about that you think is wrong?

The modern architecture that I have been weaned on also espouses (clear) function, (exposed) structure, and (raw) material as principles—characteristics that tend to be accessed only from realistic or substantive dimensions. Fictionality or imagination, the other dimension, is omitted entirely. However, Vitruvius emphasized venustas, in other words attraction or beauty as a necessity along with strength and function.

Recorded Grand Trianon Palace, Versailles, 22 May 1995, The Hyatt Foundation / The Pritzker Architecture Prize, 22 May 1995 source

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