Ando

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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, and Kyoto Prize.
His name is Tadao Ando, and he is one of the world’s greatest living architects. 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 elsewhere in architecture.

This book provides the perfect introduction to Ando’s work, including private homes, churches, museums, apartment complexes, and cultural spaces throughout Japan, and in France, Italy, Spain, and the USA.

Every book in TASCHEN's Basic Architecture series features:

• approximately 120 images, including photographs, sketches, drawings, and floor plans
  
• introductory essays exploring the architect's life and work, touching on family and background as well as collaborations with other architects
  
• the most important works presented in chronological order, with descriptions of client and/or architect wishes as well as construction problems and resolutions
  
• an appendix including a list of complete or selected works, biography, bibliography and a map indicating the locations of the architect's most famous buildings

The author: Masao Furuyama studied architecture at Kyoto University and received his doctorate in urban engineering from Tokyo University. He has taught at the Kyoto Institute of Technology, where he has been Vice-President since 2004, and published on the subjects of architecture and Tadao Ando.