From young boxer to big-hitting architect, Tadao Ando’s life packs a punch: here’s his memoir
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Tadao Ando was once a professional boxer. Before becoming one of his generation’s most esteemed architects, he had a brief stint with the punching gloves, aged 17, while living in Osaka, Japan. ‘An architect holding a pencil and drawing, and a boxer wearing gloves and stepping into the ring, are of course engaged in entirely different professions and ways of life,' says Ando. ‘But to me, they are fundamentally the same in one respect: both are battles in which you must overcome your own fears an
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