Ando

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In this essential TASCHEN introduction to Tadao Ando we explore the hybrid of tradition, modernism, and function that allows his buildings to enchant architects, designers, fashion designers, and beyond. Through key projects including private homes, churches, museums, apartment complexes, and cultural spaces, we explore a uniquely monumental yet comforting aesthetic that draws as much on the calm restraint of Japanese tradition as the compelling modernist vocabularies of Bauhaus and Le Corbusier. With featured projects in Japan, France, Italy, Spain, and the United States, we see not only Ando's global reach but also his refined sensitivity for the environs: the play of light through windows, and, in particular, the interaction of buildings with water. From the mesmerizing Church of the Light in Osaka to the luminous Punta della Dogana Contemporary Art Center in Venice, this is a radiant tour through a distinctly contemporary form as much as a timeless appeal of light, elements, and equilibrium. About the series Born back in 1985, the Basic Art Series has evolved into the best-selling art book collection ever published. Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Architecture series features: an introduction to the life and work of the architect the major works in chronological order information about the clients, architectural preconditions as well as construction problems and resolutions a list of all the selected works and a map indicating the locations of the best and most famous buildings approximately 120 illustrations (photographs, sketches, drafts, and plans) Cette introduction de reference que consacre TASCHEN a Tadao Ando nous devoile ses realisations qui marient tradition, modernisme et fonctionnalite, et seduisent notamment architectes, designers et createurs de mode. Ses projets majeurs, dont des residences privees, des eglises, des musees, des ensembles immobiliers et des espaces culturels, revelent son esthetique unique, a la fois monumentale et apaisante, qui emprunte autant a la sobriete pleine de retenue de la tradition japonaise qu'au repertoire moderniste fascinant du Bauhaus et de Le Corbusier. L'envergure internationale d'Ando s'impose au fil de la presentation de ses projets realises au Japon, en France, en Italie, en Espagne et aux Etats-Unis. Sa sensibilite raffinee pour l'environnement est perceptible dans les jeux de lumiere a travers les fenetres et, surtout, dans le dialogue de ses constructions avec l'eau. De l'envoutante eglise de la Lumiere, a Osaka, a la lumineuse galerie Punta della Dogana, a Venise, cet ouvrage nous offre un voyage eblouissant a travers des lignes resolument contemporaines et constitue un manifeste eternel en faveur de la lumiere, des elements et de l'equilibre. A propos de la collection Chaque volume de la Basic Architecture Series de TASCHEN contient: en introduction, des textes qui explorent l'origine, la vie et l'oeuvre de l'architecte ses realisations majeures, presentees dans l'ordre chronologique des informations sur les commanditaires, les conditions architectoniques prealables ainsi que les problemes de construction rencontres et les solutions qui leur ont ete apportees une liste de toutes les realisations selectionnees et une carte sur laquelle sont indiquees les constructions les plus celebres de l'architecte environ 120 illustrations (photographies, esquisses, dessins et plans)

Masao Furuyama studied architecture at Kyoto University and received his doctorate in urban engineering from Tokyo University. He has taught at the Kyoto Institute of Technology, where he has been president since 2012, and has published on the subjects of architecture and Tadao Ando. Peter Goessel runs an agency for museum and exhibition design. He has published TASCHEN monographs on Julius Shulman, R. M. Schindler, John Lautner, and Richard Neutra, as well as several titles in the Basic Architecture series.