Tadao Ando

“Would you like tea or coffee?”
“Sparkling water,” answers Tadao Ando through a translator.

He sounds pretty cheerful at this point, as he arrives for a press breakfast that will soon disintegrate as ill-prepared journalists ask ridiculous questions that prompt a fit of pique from the legendary Japanese architect.

Ando was in London to give a lecture the previous night as part of the City of London festival. The tone had been genial, knockabout even, with jolly anecdotes about his dog (which he named Le Corbusier after deciding he wouldn’t be able to kick a dog named after fellow Japanese architect Kenzo Tange) and reflections on his brief career as a boxer...more

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