安藤忠雄，日本建筑师，1995年普利兹克奖得主。1941年9月13日，安藤忠雄出生于日本大阪。他的一生甚有传奇性，在成为建筑师前，曾当过职业拳手，其后在没有经过正统训练下成为专业的建筑师。利用拳击比赛赢得的奖金，前往美国、欧洲、非洲、亚洲旅行，也顺便观察各地独特的建筑。那个时候，他的摄影作品被使用在建筑师路易·康的作品集中。
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.
安藤忠雄在大阪工业高校毕业后，前往世界各地旅行，并自学建筑。1969年，创立了安藤忠雄建筑工作室。他设计了许多个人住宅，其中位于大阪的【住吉の长屋】获得很高的评价，大规模的公共建筑到小型的个人住宅作品，多次得到日本建筑学会奖的肯定。从博物馆、娱乐设施、宗教设施、办公室等，作品的领域宽广，通常都是大型规模的建筑。
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.
后来安藤忠雄接连发表了以清水混凝土建造的住宅和商业建筑，引起风潮和讨论，名声也开始快速累积。此后他开创了自己的一套独特的建筑风格：清水混凝土风格和几何形状风格，因此享有“清水混凝土诗人”的美誉，谱写优美的建筑诗歌。简单、平静且沉稳，便是他在建筑上的留白。作为一代建筑大师，安藤忠雄为世界留下独特的、伟大的生命力。他的作品以及作品背后带给人们悟的精神性，是永恒的和无法克制的。1995年，安藤忠雄获得建筑界最高荣誉普利兹克奖，他把10万美元奖金捐赠予1995年神户大地震后的孤儿。
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.
