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Born in 1941 in Osaka, Japan, Tadao Ando, a pas- sionate architect, gave up a career as a professional boxer before embarking on an initiatory world tour in 1965 to study architecture.
It is in his birthplace that he creates his own agency in 1969. A counter current of the technological trend of architecture of the ‘70s, his creations are always sober and clean.
From the beginning, he likes to use smooth concrete in simple geometric volumes.
