Tadao Ando: Living with Nature

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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. Through more than 120 photographs, line drawings, sketches, and plans, this collection presents several unseen and unpublished works, from the Bosco Studio and House facing the Pacific Ocean in Oaxaca, Mexico, in 2014, to his penthouse in Manhattan for a Japanese collector, competed in 2019.

Born in Osaka, Japan, Tadao Ando is one of the most renowned contemporary Japanese architects. In 1969 he established Tadao Ando Architect & Associates. Ando has designed many notable buildings, including Row House in Sumiyoshi, Osaka, 1976, Church of the Light, Osaka, 1989, Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis, 2001, Armani Teatro, Milan, 2001, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 2002 and 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT in Tokyo, 2007. Among many awards he has received are the Pritzker Prize, the Carlsberg Architecture Prize, the Praemium Imperiale award, and the Kyoto Prize. Ando was a visiting professor at Yale, Columbia, and Harvard, and professor at the University of Tokyo from 1997, and professor emeritus there since 2003. Ando has held solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, NY, in 1991 and Centre Pompidou in Paris, 1993. Philip Jodidio studied art history and economics at Harvard before moving to Paris, where he was editor in chief of the French art monthly Connaissance des Arts from 1980 to 2002. Jodidio has written over 100 books about contemporary architecture and art including Tadao Ando: Venice, Tadao Ando at Naoshima, Tadao Ando Modern Art Museum of Ft. Worth, and I. M. Pei: The Complete Works for Rizzoli.

"Tadao Ando, the Pritzker prize-winning architect known for poetic concrete buildings, gets a new look in this book highlighting 10 of his most recent projects." -ELLEDECOR.COM "...a beautiful, clarifying book..." -THE SLOWDOWN "While he designed many museums, housing complexes, and public buildings, it is the residential house which has become the touchstone of Japanese architect Tadao Ando (b. 1941). It is his distinctive style, the use of concrete, glass, and natural light, unadorned walls, interplay of solid and void, minimalism, and sophisticated interiors that have become synonymous with his signature and influential across the globe." -DANIELLAONDESIGN.COM