Japanese architect Tadao Ando has been chosen for the Kyoto Prize for 2002, awarded for merit in the field of technology, science and philosophy. The award was set up in 1985 by Kazuo Inamori, creater of the Inamori Foundation in 1984, a native of Kyoto and founder of the Kyocera Corp.

Ando will receive a prize of 400 000 dollars during the ceremony which will be held in Kyoto in Japan in November, after which he will be taking part in a symposium at the University of San Diego in March 2003.

The other award winners this year are Leroy Edward Hood, president and director of the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle; Mikhael Leonidovich Gromov, professor of mathematics at the Institute des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques in Paris and New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.