| Tadao Ando: Living with Light Contributor(s): Jodidio, Philip (Author), Ando, Tadao (Preface by) |
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ISBN: 0847865304 ISBN-13: 9780847865307 Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications OUR PRICE: $103.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Architecture | Buildings - Public, Commercial & Industrial - Architecture | Buildings - Residential - Architecture | Individual Architects & Firms - Monographs |
| Dewey: 728.092 |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 11.4" W x 11.2" (5.15 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mid-South - Cultural Region - South - Geographic Orientation - Texas - Locality - Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book showcases recent houses by the world-renowned Japanese minimalist architect, offering unprecedented access to his thought process through more than 100 photographs, line drawings, sketches, and plans. Tadao Ando is one of the best-known and most influential contemporary architects with a minimalistic aesthetic and love of natural materials like glass and concrete--proof that less is more. This volume features ten houses and examines his approach to these designs. Viewed as a collection, these houses serve to demonstrate the wide range of Ando's prodigious genius through lavish and striking photographs. Characteristics of his work include large expanses of unadorned architectural concrete walls combined with wooden or stone floors and large windows. He uses simple methods to solve complicated and small spaces and turns them into spaces with breathtaking landscapes. With precise and beautiful photographs accompanied by Tadao Ando's sketches, drawings, and plans, this volume presents several unseen and little published works, from the Bosco Studio and House facing the Pacific Ocean in Oaxaca, Mexico (2014)to a penthouse in Manhattan for a Japanese collector, completed in 2019. |