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Ando: Complete Works (Taschen Spring)

Ando: Complete Works (Taschen Spring)
By Philip Jodidio

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The Tadao touch: Ando's complete works to date New format - new price! "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.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #315582 in Books
  • Published on: 2007-06-01
  • Original language: German, French, English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 500 pages

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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

About the Author
Philip Jodidio studied art history and economics at Harvard University, and was Editor-in-Chief of the French journal Connaissance des Arts for over two decades. He has published numerous articles and books, including TASCHEN's Architecture Now! volumes I and II, Building a New Millennium, and monographs on Norman Foster, Richard Meier, and Alvaro Siza. Jodidio is internationally renowned as one of the most talented writers on the subject of architecture.

Customer Reviews

Great book : Deceptive title4
A great look at awe inspiring architecture. This book is loaded with large sized color and b&w photographs, plans, building sections, and sketches. A brief, shall I say minimalist, description of each presented building is provided. Also, an informative opening essay covers Ando's evolving career and design philosophy.

The only caveat: this book covers the 'complete work' only through the device of a thumbnail appendix containing very small b&w photos of all of Ando's work. The wonderful "Church on the Water" is an unfortunate victim of this ultra-minimal, as well as deceptive, approach. It will therefore be necessary to look elsewhere for those buildings that have not received truly complete coverage. However, the works included here are well presented and well worth contemplation and study.

Comprehensive and well-presented5
Content wise, it is very similar to Ando (Taschen Basic Architecture series) - a smaller format paperback. In fact, the two books share many photos. This book adds lots of hand drawings and CAD illustrations to complement the photos and to help readers understand the perspective. But don't take me wrong, this is not a textbook, this is a well-designed coffee-table book that you can enjoy reading page after page. This book is a real bargain.

Very good book indeed...5
Very good designed book...informative...plenty of drawings but they used yellowish color, so drawings are hard to read...but it worths every penny that you spent...
Yagmur Toprakli/Ankara