Tadao Ando - Losing Battle After Battle

On 2 June 2011, at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, the Tadao Ando lecture tickets were sold out. Eighteen days later, the Osaka University Convention Center was full and cheerful. Everywhere he goes, young people crowd round him (check out the video with Bono in Dublin, below).

This is Tadao Ando, an Osaka-born genius. We are most honoured to have met him. Tadao has signed for us his Losing Battle After Battle, a book about architectural competitions which Tadao Ando has not won. About ideas, concepts, courage, failure, and the strength to keep going.

Tadao's proposed design for Museum aan de Stroom (1999)

The museum was finally designed by

Neutelings Riedijk Architecten (The Netherlands)

It opened in 2011. View it on the museum's website.

This was Tadao's vision of what Tate Modern should look like (1995)

The building was designed by

Herzog & De Meuron (Switzerland).

It opened in 2000. Check it out on the Tate official website.

You can get more information on this book in English and Japanese here.

We have written in the past about Tadao events here and also published a short post on his fundraising efforts in the aftermath of the 11 March 2011 Tohoku catastrophe.

Related links:

Watch Tadao Ando on CNN:

Tadao Ando © 2006 CNN Talk Asia Program part 1/3

 see also parts 2/3 and 3/3

thank you danone19 for the videos

Watch a short video many Tadao fans love, with Bono from U2 introducing Tadao Ando in Dublin, 2007, here.

Then watch a skillfully-composed video on Tadao Ando's works, Conceptos, which is available on youtube here.

You can buy books on Tadao Ando on amazon.com, here.

Buy Du beton et d'autres secrets de l'architecture by Tadao Ando on amazon.com here.

Enjoy !

Update on Tadao ANDO events in Japan

Tadao ANDO lecture in Osaka

20 June 2011, 16.30-20.00
Venue: Osaka University (Suita Campus, Convention Centre MO Hall)

For those who have got something to stand up for.


You can check out this year's scheduled events in a previous post:
http://bosabosareview.blogspot.com/2011/05/tadao-ando.html

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Tadao ANDO - acting for Japan

Since the 1995 Hanshin-Awaji Daishinsai (known as the Great Kobe Earthquake), the renowned Japanese architect Tadao Ando has been a member of the Reconstruction Committee for redeveloping urban areas. He has actively canalised his energies into fund-raising activities, as he is today, writing about, talking about, and working on reviving the affected regions in the Great East Japan. 

Ikiteiku anata he, Ichioku nisenmannin tachiagaro

(To you who has survived, let’s stand up)

by Tadao Ando, in Asahi Shinbun Daily Newspaper, 20 March 2011, p.28

Fukko he kokoro wo hitotsu ni , Machi he no aijo  kuni wo ugokasu

(Love your city  Rebuild the country)

by Tadao Ando, in Watashi no rirekisho (My CV weekly column), Nihon Keizai Shinbun Daily Newspaper, 22 March 2011, p. 20



Tadao ANDO   11 May- 1 October 2011 events :

Each year Tadao Ando invites the public to a series of talks, university lectures and international conferences. This month’s events in Japan commence with the GANBARE NIPPON fund-raising charity event for the victims of the Tohoku catastrophe, which will be organised in Ando’s native Osaka, on 11 May 2011. 1400 tickets of 1000 yen each have been made available, and all the money raised will be donated. Ando's talks never fail to provide the public with good conversation, earnestness and joviality, and a delicious local Kansai dialect.

Brief schedule of the events:

11 May – Osaka 18.30-20.00 Hotel New Ohtani – GANBARE NIPPON charity talk

17 May – Osaka 18.00-19.00 Kansai University Senriyama Campus – public lecture

~22 May – Tokyo 12.00-18.30 GA Gallery Shibuya– GA House Project 2011 exhibition

27 May – Fukuoka 18.30~ JR Kyushu Hall - public lecture

10 June – Osaka 13.30-15.00 Intex Osaka - seminar

11 June – Nagano 13.30~ Matsumoto Shimin Geijutsukan - public lecture

8 July – Akita 18.00-19.30 Akita Atorion Ongaku Hall – public lecture

13 July – Kyoto Ritsumeikan University – lecture

20 August – Osaka Kokusaikaigijo – architecture competition

19-21 September – Tokyo, University of Tokyo – international urban planning conference

25 Sep- 1 Oct – Tokyo – international architecture conference

For further information, visit Tadao Ando’s official website  http://www.tadao-ando.com/

and the Tadao Ando Forum on HeT architecture   http://www.hetgallery.com/ando_2.html  (in Japanese)