Seven Interviews With Tadao Ando

by Tadao Andō

Book by Auping, Michael, Ando, Tadao

Genres: Architecture

96 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

Tadao Ando is a Japanese self-taught architect. Tadao Ando's body of work is known for the creative use of natural light and for structures that follow natural forms of the landscape, rather than disturbing the landscape by making it conform to the constructed space of a building. Ando's buildings are often characterized by complex three-dimensional circulation paths. These paths interweave between interior and exterior spaces formed both inside large-scale geometric shapes and in the spaces between them.

Reviews

[Shelby]

FANTASTIC. I loved this book. I've always appreciated Tadao Ando, and I feel like this book allowed me to understand him so much more.

[Emilie Tamtik]

An extensive peek into the mind of Ando Tadao. Although the interviews arose during the building of Fort Worth, we hear about many more of his projects, what inspires him, why he builds and how.

[Evil Shelley]

An architect with the soul of a philosopher.