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Ando. Complete Works 1975–Today. 40th Anniversary Edition
Discover the unique aesthetic of Tadao Ando, the only architect ever to have won the discipline’s four most prestigious the Pritzker, Carlsberg, Praemium Imperiale, and Kyoto Prize.
This collection spans the breadth of Ando’s entire career, including such stunning new projects as the Shanghai Poly Grand Theater and the Roberto Garza Sada Center in Monterrey, Mexico. Each project is profiled through photographs and architectural drawings that explore Ando’s unprecedented use of concrete, wood, water, light, space, and natural forms.
Featuring designs from award-winning private homes, churches, museums, and apartment complexes to cultural spaces throughout Japan, South Korea, France, Italy, Germany, Mexico, and the USA, this compact edition brings you up close and personal with a Modernist master.
About the series
TASCHEN is 40! Since we started our work as cultural archaeologists in 1980, TASCHEN has become synonymous with accessible publishing, helping bookworms around the world curate their own library of art, anthropology, and aphrodisia at an unbeatable price. Today we celebrate 40 years of incredible books by staying true to our company credo. The 40 series presents new editions of some of the stars of our program—now more compact, friendly in price, and still realized with the same commitment to impeccable production.
This collection spans the breadth of Ando’s entire career, including such stunning new projects as the Shanghai Poly Grand Theater and the Roberto Garza Sada Center in Monterrey, Mexico. Each project is profiled through photographs and architectural drawings that explore Ando’s unprecedented use of concrete, wood, water, light, space, and natural forms.
Featuring designs from award-winning private homes, churches, museums, and apartment complexes to cultural spaces throughout Japan, South Korea, France, Italy, Germany, Mexico, and the USA, this compact edition brings you up close and personal with a Modernist master.
About the series
TASCHEN is 40! Since we started our work as cultural archaeologists in 1980, TASCHEN has become synonymous with accessible publishing, helping bookworms around the world curate their own library of art, anthropology, and aphrodisia at an unbeatable price. Today we celebrate 40 years of incredible books by staying true to our company credo. The 40 series presents new editions of some of the stars of our program—now more compact, friendly in price, and still realized with the same commitment to impeccable production.
511 pages, Hardcover
First published April 13, 2019
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January 11, 2022
C'est un très bel ouvrage sur le travail de Tadao Ando, qui a le chic de posséder trois traductions à chaque fois.
J'ai eu un coup de coeur pour le "Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth", Texas - USA (page 328-329).
Incroyable découverte pour la "House and stables for Tom Ford and Richard Buckley", New Mexico - USA (page 372 - 375).
Magnifique ouvrage "Shanghai Poly Theater" en Chine (page 388 - 399).
La maison à Monterrey, Mexico est aussi incroyable (page 405), on se demande même si ces propriétaires sont des narcos.
Finalement, Le Château La Coste me donne encore plus envie de le visiter (page 441).
Toutefois, il y avait quand même quelques fautes d'orthographes en français:
- p. 62 = il manque un espace entre "arbres" et "possible".
- p. 141 = il manque le "d" du mot "de".
- p. 142 = il manque l'accent "é" au mot "église".
Bonsoir.
J'ai eu un coup de coeur pour le "Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth", Texas - USA (page 328-329).
Incroyable découverte pour la "House and stables for Tom Ford and Richard Buckley", New Mexico - USA (page 372 - 375).
Magnifique ouvrage "Shanghai Poly Theater" en Chine (page 388 - 399).
La maison à Monterrey, Mexico est aussi incroyable (page 405), on se demande même si ces propriétaires sont des narcos.
Finalement, Le Château La Coste me donne encore plus envie de le visiter (page 441).
Toutefois, il y avait quand même quelques fautes d'orthographes en français:
- p. 62 = il manque un espace entre "arbres" et "possible".
- p. 141 = il manque le "d" du mot "de".
- p. 142 = il manque l'accent "é" au mot "église".
Bonsoir.
March 25, 2021
I loved it! It provides many high quality pictures and plan of Ando's projects which may be hard to find on the Internet. Although the accompanied text are not particularly helpful (and having two extra languages take up a lot of space...), it also has a complete catalog in the appendix that is informational. Highly recommended for an intro to Tadao Ando at an affordable price (bought it at about $40 USD)!
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