Dimensions
220 x 240 x 37mm
Tadao Ando (b.1941) is Japan's leading architect and designer with a dazzling international reputation. In 1995 he was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize for "consistent and significant contributions to the built environment". A comprehensive monograph of Ando's work, this book examines over 100 buildings and projects designed between 1969-94, illustrated by photographs, plans and exquisite sketches.
Francesco Dal Co introduces this detailed survey, which ranges from the smallest of Ando's private houses from the 1970s to such major commissions as the Church on the Water, Hokkaido (1981), the Japanese Pavilion for Expo 92 in Seville, and the Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum (1992).
A selection of Ando's own writings over the past fifteen years are also featured, giving an insight into the development of this unique architect's work; and an interview with Hiroshi Maruyama accompanies a selection of essays by a range of respected international critics including Peter Eisenman, Kenneth Frampton, Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani and Fredric Jameson.
