Tadao Ando Livres

" En architecture, une partie de la création vient du raisonnement logique et une autre des sens. Il y a toujours un point où ces deux éléments entrent en conflit. Je ne pense pas que l'architecture puisse se créer sans cette collision. " Philippe Starck voit en lui un " mystique dans un pays qui n'est plus mystique ". Philip Drew évoque au sujet de ses réalisations un " land art " qui " lutte pour sortir de terre ". II est le seul architecte à avoir remporté les quatre plus prestigieuses distinctions de sa profession : les prix Pritzke Carlsberg, Kyoto et le Praemium Imperiale. Son nom : Tadao Ando, l'un des plus grands architectes vivants. Combinant les influences de la tradition japonaise et le meilleur du modernisme, il a développé peu à peu une esthétique unique qui fait appel au béton, au bois, à l'eau, à la lumière, à l'espace et à la nature d'une façon unique dans l'histoire de l'architecture. Aussi bien au Japon qu'en France, en Italie, en Espagne et aux Etats-Unis Ando a conçu de nombreuses résidences privées, des églises, des musées, des immeubles d'appartements et des centres culturels qui lui ont valu de multiples distinctions. Ce livre, réalisé à un sommet de sa carrière, réunit son œuvre complète à ce jour.

For almost 30 years, the Italian architect Carlo Scarpa collaborated with the well-known Venetian cabinetmaker Saverio Anfodillo to construct his designs. The Craft of Architecture documents their work together and gives a survey of Scarpa's oeuvre, one of the most outstanding of the 20th century. This publication is informed and instigated by the MAK's 1999 acquisition of a number of design drawings from the cabinetmaker's archives. These include architectural illustrations for the Museo di Castelvecchio in Verona, built 1956-1964, the Galleria Querini Stampalia in Venice, built in 1961-1963, and the Tomba Brion in San Vito di Altivole, built in 1970-1978; as well as furniture design sketches and wooden models of design details, some for a table for composer Luigi Nono. The Craft of Architecture presents for the first time plans, sketches, blueprints, and models from this collection, complemented by photographs of Scarpa's most important built projects.

"Ando selected for inclusion the thirty-five projects that best embody his belief that the interplay with nature defines architecture and the passage of time molds architecture. All are shown in spectacular, specially commissioned color photography. Among the major recent works are the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in Texas; the Komyo-ji Temple in Saijo, Japan; the meditation space for UNESCO in Paris; the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts in St. Louis; and the Armani/Teatro in Milan. Also included are some of Ando's most important and well-known earlier works, including the Church of the Water in Hokkaido, the Church of the Light in Ibaraki, and a series of houses throughout Japan."--BOOK JACKET.

One of the most recent achievements in the brilliant career of Japanese architect Tadao Ando is a spectacular structure composed of basic geometric forms. Situated on the island of Naoshima off the picturesque coast of western Japan, the Chichu Art Museum provides a congenial setting for the presentation of an exquisite selection of undisputed masterpieces of artistic reduction, including a monumental sculpture by Walter De Maria, meditative light installations by James Turrell, and a series of Claude Monet's incomparable Water Lilies. The museum, located on cliffs overlooking the straits of the Seto Inland Sea, is the latest part of an expansive museum environment envisioned by the publisher Fukutake - a private estate filled with sculptures, installations, Land Art, and artist pavilions. This publication presents the building in captivating photographs by Naoya Hatakeyama and Ryuji Miyamoto, showing both the construction site and the completed museum, as well as insightful essays on the treasures contained within.