Tadao Ando, Couleurs de Lumière

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Le fruit de dix années de collaboration entre le célèbre architecte japonais Tadao Ando (né en 1941) et le photographe anglais Richard Pare. Ce livre examine 27 constructions de Tadao Ando, dont la Kidosaki House (Tokyo, 1986), l'Eglise de l'eau (Hokkaido, 1988) et l'Espace de méditation de l'Unesco (Paris, 1995). Les photographies de Richard Pare traduisent "l'essence" même des bâtiments de Tadao Ando en capturant les effets de la lumière naturelle sur les bâtiments. Avec une introduction de Tom Heneghan, professeur à l'université Kogakuin de Tokyo. Des croquis de l'architecte accompagnent chaque description de projet.

Tadao Ando: The Colours of Light is the result of ten years’ collaboration between the English photographer Richard Pare and Japan’s leading architect, Tadao Ando (b. 1941). This book includes twenty-seven of Ando’s buildings, completed over the last fifteen years, including the notable Kidosaki House, Tokyo, 1986, the Church on the Water, Hokkaido, 1988 and the Meditation Space for Unesco, Paris, 1995.

Richard Pare’s images break with previous conventions of architectural representation; he distils the ‘essence’ of Ando’s buildings rather than producing literal portraits, and concentrates on the subtle effects of natural light on architecture. The photographic portfolio is complemented by an introductory essay by Tom Heneghan and drawings by Tadao Ando accompany each project description.

The Colours of Light was first published in 1996 to critical acclaim, and now for the first time it is available as a miniature edition.

Richard Pare is the consulting curator of photography for the Canadian Centre for Architecture and has exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art and the Max Protetch Gallery in New York.

Tom Heneghan was educated at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, where he taught from 1979. In 1990, he was invited by Arata Isozaki to participate in the ‘Kumamoto Art Polis’ programme in Japan. He is currently Professor at Kogakuin University in Tokyo.