Tadao Ando (安藤 忠雄 Andō Tadao, born September 13, 1941, in Minato-ku, Osaka, Japan and raised in Asahi-ku in the city) is a Japanese architect. He visited buildings designed by renowned architects like Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Kahn before returning to Osaka in 1968 and established his own design studio, Tadao Ando Architect and Associates. He works primarily in exposed cast-in-place concrete and is renowned for an exemplary craftsmanship which invokes a Japanese sense of materiality, junction and spatial narrative through the pared aesthetics of international modernism.
A lot of you, anonymous and non-anonymous, have asked me about “what it takes” to become an architect, a.k.a the whole process of becoming an architect. I can’t really post more than what I already have in this post, but here are some quick (okay, not so quick…)
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Sarah Bernhardt, la dame aux camelias, poster by Alfons Mucha, 1896 by trialsanderrors on Flickr.
Sarah Bernhardt, la dame aux camélias. Theatre de la Renaissance. Poster advertising the lady of the camelias (or Camille), a play by Alexandre Dumas, showing actress Sarah Bernhardt as Camille, full-length, against a background of silver stars, with a hand at lower left holding a branch of camellia blossoms. Lithograph by Alfons Maria (aka Alphonse Marie) Mucha, printed by Imp. F. Champenois, Paris, 1896.
From the Artist Posters Collection at the Library of CongressMore prints by Alfons Mucha | More performing arts posters[PD] This picture is in the public domain.
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