Tadao Ando (b.1941) is Japan's leading architect and a designer, with a dazzling international reputation. This complete catalogue of Ando's work examines in close detail more than 100 buildings and projects, all illustrated by drawings, sketches, plans and other material from the architect's own st[...]

Highlights from five lectures delivered by Tadao Ando at the University of Tokyo s Graduate School of Architecture in which he candidly describes growing up in postwar Japan, the people and experiences that inspired him, and most importantly of cultivating a fighting spirit in order to find one s vo[...]

A new edition of the acclaimed portfolio of work by Japan's leading architect, now featuring digitally remastered photographs."The magnificent photographs by Richard Pare come as close to putting you there as any publication is likely to achieve." -The New York TimesAn exquisite work of art in its o[...]

The Chateau La Coste in Le Puy-Sainte-Reparade, near Aix-en-Provence, is a working vineyard, and, since 2004, a destination for a world-class collection of modern and contemporary art and architecture. For the past decade, the vineyard has been inviting artists and architects from around the world--[...]

Werner Blaser, architect and author of more than one hundred books, introduces the reader to the world of Tadao Ando's sunken architectures. In fascinating photographs, a method of construction is presented that has its roots in the traditional earth dwellings of northern and north-western China. Ye[...]

Entirely self-educated, Tadao Ando is considered Japan's leading architect and his sublime buildings are located all over the world. This book profiles ninety of Ando's projects across the globe from the mid 1990s to today, including museums, convention centres, factories, shrines, residences, and c[...]

The Tadao touch. Ando's complete works to date 1975-2014. Philippe Starck describes 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." He is the only architect to have won the discipline's four most presti[...]