Tadao Ando. Complete Works
The Tadao touch: Ando's complete works to date
"In architecture, there is a part that is the result of logical reasoning and a part that is created through the senses. There is always a point where they clash. I don't think architecture can be created without that collision." -Tadao Ando
Philippe Starck describes him as a "mystic in a country which is no longer mystic." Philip Drew calls his buildings "land art" that "struggle to emerge from the earth." He is the only architect to have won the discipline's four most prestigious prizes: the Pritzker, Carlsberg, Praemium Imperiale, and Kyoto Prize. His name is Tadao Ando, and he is the world's greatest living architect. Combining influences from Japanese tradition with the best of Modernism, Ando has developed a completely unique building aesthetic that makes use of concrete, wood, water, light, space, and nature in a way that has never been witnessed in architecture. Ando has designed award-winning private homes, churches, museums, apartment complexes, and cultural spaces throughout Japan, as well as in France, Italy, Spain, and the USA. This book, created at the height of Ando's illustrious career, presents his complete works to date.
About the author:
Philip Jodidio studied art history and economics at Harvard, and edited Connaissance des Arts for over 20 years. His books include TASCHEN's Architecture Now! series, Building a New Millennium, and monographs on Tadao Ando, Norman Foster, Richard Meier, Jean Nouvel, and Álvaro Siza. He is internationally renowned as one of the most popular writers on the subject of architecture.
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Tadao Ando. Complete Works
Jodidio, Philip / Ando, Tadao
Hardcover, 30.8 x 39 cm (12.1 x 15.4 in.), 500 pages $ 150.00 ISBN: 978-3-8228-2164-0 Multilingual Edition: English, French, German Availability: Not in Stock |
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"If you want an example of how architecture influences the homes we live in, look no further than TASCHEN's new book on the Japanese architect Tadao Ando. If there's one man responsible for making concrete sexy again it's this guy".
Independent on Saturday Magazine, London, United Kingdom
Independent on Saturday Magazine, London, United Kingdom
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Ando: Complete Works
Bookforum, United States, February 01, 2005
Bookforum, United States, February 01, 2005
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