Tadao Ando: Light and Space

(Hardback, The Colours of Light Volume 2)

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Following the acclaimed first volume in Tadao Ando s monograph series with Phaidon, Tadao Ando: The Colours of Light (1996), this new volume showcases the continual collaboration between Ando and the photographer Richard Pare. Beginning with the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis, Missouri, in 2001, the book presents Pare s extraordinary photographs of 28 contemporary projects in locations around the world, including Japan, Germany, Mexico, South Korea, Italy, and the United States.

Opening with a foreword by Ando and an introduction by Dominique Perrault, it additionally features original drawings by Ando created exclusively for the book and a detailed appendix providing key information and site plans for each project.

Reviews

Praise for Volume 1, Tadao Ando: Colours of Light:

Exquisitely photographed by Richard Pare, the details of Mr Andos houses, office buildings, meditation spaces and churches haunt the retina. New York Times

A superb example of a monograph that is more than simply a catalog of buildings. Richard Pares photographs beautifully capture the abstraction, the sublime simplicity, the materiality, and the quality of time (lines) in Andos work. Jury of the American Institute of Architects

Author Bio

Tadao Ando is Japan s leading contemporary architect. Working primarily in structural concrete, alongside subtle details in natural materials like wood and stone, Ando has received the Pritzker Prize in 1995 and the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal in 2002.

Richard Pare is a photographer and founding curator of photography at the Canadian Centre for Architecture. He has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Martin Gropiusbau in Berlin, and the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

Dominique Perrault is a French architect and urban planner.