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 rfrence que consacre TASCHEN Tadao Ando nous dvoile ses ralisations qui marient tradition, modernisme et fonctionnalit, et sduisent notamment architectes, designers et crateurs de mode. Ses projets majeurs, dont des rsidences prives, des glises, des muses, des ensembles immobiliers et des espaces culturels, rvlent son esthtique unique, la fois monumentale et apaisante, qui emprunte autant la sobrit pleine de retenue de la tradition japonaise qu'au rpertoire moderniste fascinant du Bauhaus et de Le Corbusier. L'envergure internationale d'Ando s'impose au fil de la prsentation de ses projets raliss au Japon, en France, en Italie, en Espagne et aux tats-Unis. Sa sensibilit raffine pour l'environnement est perceptible dans les jeux de lumire travers les fentres et, surtout, dans le dialogue de ses constructions avec l'eau. De l'envotante glise de la Lumire, Osaka, la lumineuse galerie Punta della Dogana, Venise, cet ouvrage nous offre un voyage blouissant travers des lignes rsolument contemporaines et constitue un manifeste ternel en faveur de la lumire, des lments et de l'quilibre. 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'uvre de l'architecte ses ralisations majeures, prsentes dans l'ordre chronologique des informations sur les commanditaires, les conditions architectoniques pralables ainsi que les problmes de construction rencontrs et les solutions qui leur ont t apportes une liste de toutes les ralisations slectionnes et une carte sur laquelle sont indiques les constructions les plus clbres de l'architecte environ 120 illustrations (photographies, esquisses, dessins et plans)

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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 Gssel 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.