Conference Pavilion
Weil am Rhein
1993
Tadao Ando
Tadao Ando is a contemporary Japanese architect born in 1941 in Osaka. He initially started to work as a boxer, but then decided to pursue architecture through night classes on drawing and interior design. He opened his architectural practice Tadao Ando Architects and Associates in 1968. After being awarded the Pritzker Prize in 1995, he donated the prize money to the orphans of the 1995 Kobe earthquake. His architectural style emphasizes the beauty of simplicity.