Tadao Ando : Complete Works 1975 - 2012
Jodidio, Philip
ISBN 10: 3836528134 ISBN 13: 9783836528139
Published by Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 2012
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659 pages with over six hundred pages of color illustrations. Crisp, tight, sharp, bright, and clean. Major hardcover monograph that comprehensively addresses the career and major accomplishments of the internationally renowned architect. Signed by Ando on the title page an accompanying sketch. Text is in English, French, and German. Bibliography. Biography. 11 3/4 x 9 1/2 x 2 inches. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Seller Inventory # 025277
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The Tadao touch. Ando’s complete works to date 1975-2012
Philippe Starck describes him as a “mystic in a country which is no longer mystic.” Philip Drew calls his buildings “land art” as they “struggle to emerge from the earth.” He is the only architect to have won the discipline’s four most prestigious prizes: the Pritzker, Carlsberg, Praemium Imperiale, and Kyoto Prize. His name is Tadao Ando, and he is one of the greatest living architects. Combining influences from Japanese tradition with the best of Modernism, Ando has developed a completely unique building aesthetic that makes use of concrete, wood, water, light, space, and nature in a way that has never been witnessed in architecture. His designs include award-winning private homes, churches, museums, apartment complexes, and cultural spaces throughout Japan, as well as in France, Italy, Spain, and the USA.This book, created at the height of Ando’s illustrious career, and thoroughly updated for this new 2012 edition, presents his complete works to date.
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Philip Jodidio (born 1954) studied art history and economics at Harvard, and edited Connaissance des Arts for over 20 years. His books include TASCHEN’s Architecture Now! series, and monographs on Tadao Ando, Norman Foster, Richard Meier, Jean Nouvel, and Zaha Hadid. He is internationally renowned as one of the most popular writers on the subject of architecture.
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Bibliographic Details
Title: Tadao Ando : Complete Works 1975 - 2012
Publisher: Benedikt Taschen Verlag
Publication Date: 2012
Binding: Cloth
Condition: Fine Condition
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine Condition
Signed: Signed by the Architect
Book Type: Book
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TADAO ANDO COMPLETE WORKS 1975-2012 [SIGNED W/ ORIGINAL CHURCH OF LIGHT DRAWING - 1ST EDITION - FINE COPY]
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Taschen, 2012
ISBN 10: 3836528134
ISBN 13: 9783836528139
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First Edition. Combining influences from Japanese tradition with the best of Modernism, Tadao Ando has developed a completely unique building aesthetic that makes use of concrete, wood, water, light, space, and nature in a way that has never been witnessed in architecture. This book, created at the height of Ando's career, presents his complete works. Taschen, 2012. Hardcover in pictorial dust jacket. First Edition. 660 pages filled with images and text detailing the architectural ideas, philosophies and production of Tadao Ando between 1975 and 2012. Text in English. SIGNED by Tadao Ando on the first page with a drawing of the Chruch of Light in Ibaraki-Osaka in Japan. BOOK CONDITION: Fine; a solid, tight, clean copy in a Fine dust jacket showing light overall rubbing and shelf wear. SIGNED WITH AN ORIGINAL DRAWING. Seller Inventory # 5730