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.

A complete catalogue of the work of the renowned Japanese architect.Edited by Francesco Dal Co A complete catalogue of the work of renowned Japanese architect Tadao Ando (b.1941), an international design star Examines over 100 buildings and projects, illustrated by drawings, sketches, plans and documents from the architect's studio Exhaustive survey ranges from small private houses to major commissions like the Church on the Water, the Japanese Pavilion for the Expo 92 in Seville and the Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum With an introduction by Francesco Dal Co and an interview with Ando by Hiroshi Maruyama Includes essays on Ando's architecture by respected critics including Peter Eisenman, Kenneth Frampton, Tom Heneghan and Francois Chaslin, and selected writings by Ando himself