Ando. Complete Works 1975–Today
80Edizione: Multilingue (Francese, Inglese, Tedesco)Disponibilità: gennaio 14, 2025Ando. Complete Works 1975–Today. 2019 Edition
80Perfection in Simplicity
Tadao Ando’s complete works from 1975 until today
Discover the completely unique aesthetic of Tadao Ando, the only architect ever to have won the discipline’s four most prestigious prizes: the Pritzker, Carlsberg, Praemium Imperiale, and Kyoto Prize.
Philippe Starck defines him as a “mystic in a country which is no longer mystic.” Philip Drew calls his buildings “land art” as they “struggle to emerge from the earth.” His designs have been described as haiku crafted from concrete, water, light, and space. But to Ando, true architecture is not expressed in metaphysics or beauty, but rather through space that embodies physical wisdom.
This thoroughly updated edition spans the breadth of his entire career, including such acclaimed new projects as the Bourse de Commerce in Paris and the Nakanoshima Children’s Book Forest in Osaka. Each project is profiled through photographs and architectural drawings to explore Ando’s unprecedented use of concrete, wood, water, light, space, and natural forms.
Featuring designs from award-winning private homes, churches, museums, and apartment complexes to cultural spaces throughout Japan, South Korea, France, Italy, Germany, Mexico, and the USA, this edition brings you up close and personal with a Modernist master.
L'artista
Tadao Ando, nato nel 1941, è uno degli architetti contemporanei più famosi al mondo. Ex boxer, decise di intraprendere gli studi di architettura due anni dopo essersi diplomato. È l’unico architetto ad aver vinto tutti i quattro premi più prestigiosi del settore: Pritzker, Carlsberg, Praemium Imperiale e Kyoto Prize. Attualmente lavora a Osaka, sua città natale.
L'autore
Philip Jodidio ha studiato Storia dell’arte ed Economia ad Harvard e per più di vent’anni è stato curatore della rivista d’arte francese Connaissance des Arts. Tra i suoi libri si annoverano la serie Homes for Our Time di TASCHEN e monografie su vari architetti di spicco tra cui Norman Foster, Tadao Ando, Renzo Piano, Jean Nouvel e Zaha Hadid.
Ando. Complete Works 1975–Today
Copertina rigida, 22.8 x 28.9 cm, 3.18 kg, 740 pagineISBN 978-3-8365-7712-0
Edizione: Multilingue (Francese, Inglese, Tedesco)5