Get to know Tadao Ando, the only architect to have won the discipline's four most prestigious prizes: the Pritzker, Carlsberg, Praemium Imperiale, and Kyoto Prize. This succinct introduction explores Ando's unique blend of calm Japanese tradition and compelling modernism across private homes, churches, fashion stores, museums, and more.
Bilingual English & French. Monograph of Tadao Ando whose architectural projects includes the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (USA), Langen Foundation (Germany), Francois Pinault Foundation for Contemporary Art (France) and Palazzo Grassi (Italy). With conversation between Ando and Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto.
Tadao Ando, 1995 Pritzker Prize laureate, is probably the most important and influential Japanese architect working today. He is famed for his spare and rigorous compositions and use of materials, notably concrete. In Ando's architecture the experience of space and nature - sunlight, sky and wind - is one of the main themes. Among his best-known buildings are the Wall House, the Rokko Housing Development, the Mount Rokko Chapel and the Museum of Literature in Himeji. This Studio Paperback covers important recent projects and buildings including the Japan Pavilion in Seville and the Vitra Seminar House in Weil/Basel. The author, Masao Furuyama, has worked closely with Tadao Ando on this book.