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[...]
The result of ten years of collaboration between English photographer Richard Pare and the internationally renowned Japanese architect Tadao Ando, this book provides a photographic view of Ando's work. Pare has built up a portfolio of 200 images in which he has tried to distil the essence of each bu[...]
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[...]
Combining the influences of Japanese building traditions with the best of modernism, Tadao Ando's projects, such as the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth featured here, embody spaces that encourage contemplation and demonstrate a love for essential forms.[...]
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--[...]
Die minimalistische Betonarchitektur von Tadao Ando hat ihre Wurzeln sowohl in japanischen Traditionen als auch in der modernen westlichen Architektur. Genau bei diesen Zusammenhangen setzt das Buch an: Es untersucht, auf welche Weise Ando in seinem Werk japanische Tradition und zeitgenossische west[...]
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[...]
Tadao Ando, 1941 in Japan geboren, gehoert zu den ganz grossen Architekten der Welt. Das Entwerfen erlernte er nicht auf einer Architekturschule, sondern erarbeitete es sich selbst auf Reisen in Afrika, Europa und den USA. 1970 begrundete er sein Architekturburo in Osaka. Der Pritzker-Preistrager wu[...]
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[...]
Philippe Starck describes him as a "mystic in a country which is no longer mystic." Drew Philip 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, an[...]
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[...]
"From Emptiness to Infinity" pays homage to one of the world's most renowned architects, Japanese minimalist master Tadao Ando (born 1941), offering an exclusive glimpse into his work process. Ando is known for his creative implementation of natural light, his deft interweaving of interior and exter[...]