Ando
The Tadao touch: Ando's complete works to date
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"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 University, and was editor-in-chief of the leading French art journal Connaissance des Arts for over two decades. He has published numerous articles and books on contemporary architecture, including TASCHEN's Architecture Now! series, Building a New Millennium, and monographs Tadao Ando, Santiago Calatrava, Norman Foster, Richard Meier, Jean Nouvel, and Álvaro Siza.
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Ando
Jodidio, Philip
Hardcover 9 x 11.4 in., 500 pages, $ 39.99 |
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Book Presentation
Tadao Ando at University of Hong Kong for lecture and signing of "Ando. Complete Works"
November 24, 2008
T2, Meng Wah Complex, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Tel: (852) 2859 2149, Hong Kong
Tadao Ando at University of Hong Kong for lecture and signing of "Ando. Complete Works"
November 24, 2008
T2, Meng Wah Complex, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Tel: (852) 2859 2149, Hong Kong
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"L’historien d’art Philip Jodidio publie chez TASCHEN Ando Complete Works, une somme de 500 pages consacrée à ce maître d’œuvre génial qui a su allier sans accroche, modernisme et tradition japonaise. Ce magnifique catalogue raisonné, bien nourri en illustrations et croquis offre un aperçu exhaustif de l’univers de l’artiste."
Gentleman, Bruxelles, Belgium
Gentleman, Bruxelles, Belgium
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Architecture contemporaine japonaise
rsr.ch, Switzerland, December 14, 2007
rsr.ch, Switzerland, December 14, 2007
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