Discover the work of Tadao Ando, the only architect ever to have won the discipline's four most prestigious prizes: the Pritzker, Carlsberg, Praemium Imperiale, and Kyoto Prize.This large monograph celebrates the completely unique aesthetic of one of the world's most acclaimed architects. Spanning from his very beginnings in 1975 to such stunning new projects as the Hansol Museum in South Korea and Teatrino in Venice, Italy, it explores his unprecedented use of concrete, wood, water, light, space, and natural forms. A testimony to the diversity and global reach of the Ando touch, featured designs span across award-winning private homes, churches, museums, apartment complexes, and cultural spaces throughout Japan, as well as in France, Italy, Spain, and the USA.
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Architect Tadao Ando's designs have been described as haikus crafted from concrete, water, light, and space. This is a tribute to his body of work completed from 1975 until such recent projects as the Hansol Museum in South Korea and Teatrino in Venice, Italy. Each structure is profiled through photographs and architectural drawings, providing...
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ISBN
9783836553940
Publisert
2017-10-17
Utgiver
Vendor
Taschen Gmbh
Vekt
3297 gr
Høyde
289 mm
Bredde
228 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
720

Forfatter
Kunstner

Biographical note

Philip Jodidio studied art history and economics at Harvard, and edited Connaissance des Arts for over 20 years. His TASCHEN books include the Architecture Now! series and monographs on Tadao Ando, Santiago Calatrava, Renzo Piano, Jean Nouvel, Shigeru Ban, Richard Meier, Zaha Hadid, and soon Norman Foster. Tadao Ando (born in 1941) is one of the world's most renowned contemporary architects. At first a boxer, he decided to pursue architecture two years after graduating from high school. He is the only one to have won the discipline's four most prestigious prizes: the Pritzker, Carlsberg, Praemium Imperiale, and Kyoto Prize. Ando currently works from his native Osaka.