Atlas Tadao Ando

Author : Anonim
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783791387970

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Atlas: Tadao Ando by Anonim Pdf

This highly original and personal exploration of Tadao Ando’s work, one of Japan’s leading architects, traverses both the physical and spiritual world. In 2012, Philippe Séclier visited Tadao Ando’s iconic Church of the Light, and was immediately compelled to journey around the world to further study the architect’s buildings. This unique presentation of Ando’s work is the result of what turned into a nine-year project to photograph 130 buildings. Walking around each structure, trying to find the proper framing, helped Séclier understand Ando’s genius for siting and composition. Loosely organized by chronology, each building is represented in numerous black and white images, arranged like a mosaic on the page. These fragmented views correspond to Ando’s own philosophy of the logic of structure and geometry. This “atlas” embraces not only the geographic but also thematic range of Ando’s oeuvre—from transit stations in Tokyo and Kobe to art museums in Fort Worth, Texas and Provence, France; from an artists’ retreat on the Mexican coast to the now-demolished Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester, England; from a theater in Milan, Italy, to an upscale restaurant in New York City. Séclier’s photographs of Ando’s numerous religious structures brilliantly illustrate his use of light and shadow to evoke spiritual depth and timelessness while his short texts offer concise observations of each building. A helpful appendix pinpoints the geographic diversity and range of Ando’s oeuvre.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0714875147

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Tadao Ando: The Colours of Light Volume 1 (2nd Edition) by Anonim Pdf

A new edition of the acclaimed portfolio of work by Japan's leading architect, now featuring digitally remastered photographs. "The magnificent photographs by Richard Pare come as close to putting you there as any publication is likely to achieve." —The New York Times An exquisite work of art in its own right, this book is the result of ten years' collaboration between the English photographer Richard Pare and the internationally renowned Japanese architect Tadao Ando. This new edition features all the same extraordinary photographs, completely remastered from the original negatives, bringing this beautiful volume back to life. Pare's remarkable images shed new light on this important body of work, while Ando's original line drawings and sketches provide unparalleled insight into his creative process.

Author : Virginia McLeod,Phaidon Press
Publisher : Phaidon
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1838661905

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Atlas of Brutalist Architecture by Virginia McLeod,Phaidon Press Pdf

The Brutalist aesthetic is enjoying a renaissance - and this book documents Brutalism as never before. In the most wide-ranging investigation ever undertaken into one of architecture's most powerful movements, more than 850 Brutalist buildings - existing and demolished, classic and contemporary - are organized geographically into nine continental regions. Much-loved masterpieces in the UK and USA sit alongside lesser-known examples in Europe, Asia, Australia, and beyond - 102 countries in all, proving that Brutalism was, and continues to be, a truly international architectural phenomenon.

Author : Francesco Dal Co,Tadao Andō
Publisher : Phaidon
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UVA:X006087653

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Tadao Ando by Francesco Dal Co,Tadao Andō Pdf

A complete catalogue of the work of the renowned Japanese architect.

Author : Tadao Ando
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:638676162

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Tadao Ando by Tadao Ando Pdf

Author : Philip Jodidio
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780847865307

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Tadao Ando: Living with Light by Philip Jodidio Pdf

This book showcases recent houses by the world-renowned Japanese minimalist architect, offering unprecedented access to his thought process through more than 100 photographs, line drawings, sketches, and plans. 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. With precise and beautiful photographs accompanied by Tadao Ando's sketches, drawings, and plans, this volume presents several unseen and little published works, from the Bosco Studio and House facing the Pacific Ocean in Oaxaca, Mexico (2014)to a penthouse in Manhattan for a Japanese collector, completed in 2019.

Author : Phaidon Press
Publisher : Phaidon
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UCSD:31822034200634

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The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture by Phaidon Press Pdf

A condensed version of the information contained in the ground breaking Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture, this travel edition is pocket sized and portable, ideal for the holiday or business traveller. Organized geographically and illustrated with global, regional and sub-regional maps, locating each building, plus twenty seven city orientations, the book contains 1,052 buildings, each of which is illustrated with a single image, and is accompanied by a brief description as well as the address and telephone number

Author : Tadao Ando
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1616890703

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Tadao Ando by Tadao Ando Pdf

The newest volume in our popular Conversations series features Japanese architect Tadao Ando. One of the most celebrated living architects, Ando is best known for crafting serenely austere structures that fuse Japanese building traditions with Western modernism. His minimalist masterworks-geometric forms clad in silky-smooth exposed concrete-are suffused with natural light and set in perfect harmony with the landscape. In these highlights from lectures delivered at the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Architecture, Ando candidly describes his experiences as a largely self-taught practitioner, tracing his development from an early interest in the traditional building craft of his native Japan through his political awakening in the turbulent 1960s to his current stature as one of the world's foremost architects. In addition to exploring his aesthetic influences and working process, Ando offers students a road map not only for maintaining professional integrity, but also for becoming effective agents of change in the world.

Author : Philip Drew,Tadao Andō
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1996-11-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017763843

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Church On the Water, Church of the Light by Philip Drew,Tadao Andō Pdf

These two small and exquisite churches by Tadao Ando - one rural and 'open', the other urban and 'enclosed' - complement each other perfectly and together provide an insight into Ando's creation of sacred space. The Church on the Water occupies an idyllic pastoral site and consists of two squares, one large, one small, that overlap and are arranged facing a man-made pool. The Church of the Light is built in a quiet residential area of Osaka. Here Ando explores the spiritual force of the effects of sunlight on raw concrete. Slits cut in the form of a cross perforate the chapel's front wall; when lit up by the morning sun they create what Ando describes as a 'cross of light'. With these two churches, Ando provides a synthesis of opposites, creating spaces that attain a purity and calm through powerful architectonic forms.

Author : 安藤忠雄
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10
Category : Architects
ISBN : 4887062966

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安藤忠雄の建築 by 安藤忠雄 Pdf

安藤忠雄作品集シリーズを締めくくる最終巻

Author : Editors of Phaidon
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0714857068

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20th-Century World Architecture by Editors of Phaidon Pdf

Global investigation of 20th-century architecture, 750+ masterpieces richly illustrated.

Author : Kanae Hasegawa
Publisher : Frame Publishers
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9789492311023

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Where They Create: Japan by Kanae Hasegawa Pdf

Featuring the work of photographer Paul Barbera, this book documents creativity in 32 Japanese studios. Photographer Paul Barbera presents his next volume in the Where They Create series – this time with a different approach, by exploring the theme of his series through geographical locales. Reinvigorated by his first visit to Japan in five years, he makes this country the starting point of this new volume. Through the lens of creative spaces, Barbera chronicles his journey as he uncovers how contemporary Japanese design, art and creative thinking, has influenced and inspired the world (and vice versa). Barbera's search is simple and clear: he only visits the studios of people whose work he loves and admires, and who have inspiring spaces. For this book, Barbera was invited to shoot the studios of 32 creatives like Anrealage, Kengo Kuma, Wonderwall, Nendo, Tadao Ando, Tokujin Yoshioka, Toyo Ito and many more. Interviews with these creators reveal how their daily environment influences their output. Features Successor to the first portfolio book of Paul Barbera, which was an inspiring publication created out the successful weblog (wheretheycreate.com)The subjects of this book come from all walks of life artists, architects and graphic designers to fashion designers and a flower artists – with engaging stories of how they have arrived at ‘where they create’.The book provides a rare view into the surroundings of some of the greatest Japanese creative minds of our time.Additional interviews with experts on Japanese design shed some light and personal insights on the country’s creative thinking.

Author : Tadao Ando,Masao Furuyama
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9782080204042

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Tadao Ando by Tadao Ando,Masao Furuyama Pdf

This comprehensive monograph on Pritzker Prize-winning architect Tadao Ando covers the span of his impressive career, with previously unpublished material and insight into his sources of inspiration. This in-depth monograph offers insight into Tadao Ando's sober and elegant architecture through photographs, architectural drawings, and descriptions of eighty of his most significant works. His notable works span the globe: London's Tate Modern; St. Louis's Pulitzer Arts Foundation; Osaka's Church of the Light; Paris's UNESCO Meditation Space; Venice's Palazzo Grassi; Abu Dhabi's Maritime Museum; and exceptional buildings in South Korea, Taiwan, China, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Germany, and throughout the United States. Japanese design principles--from the use of concrete, simple geometric volumes, and the integration of natural elements such as light or water--are essential elements that Ando uses to provoke a physical experience through his architecture. An interview with the architect accompanies his own writings and critical essays on various aspects of his work. A portfolio of Ando's black-and-white photographs and colored-pencil drawings from his previously unpublished travel notebooks provide new insight into his sources of inspiration. The book is completed with a biography and a chronology of his works to date, including some unrealized projects.

Author : Ivan Bercedo
Publisher : Ediciones Polígrafa S.A.
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8434313693

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The World Atlas of Art Nouveau Architecture by Ivan Bercedo Pdf

The result of years of research, this epic volume shows the global reach of the Art Nouveau idiom Modernismo, Jugendstil or Art Nouveau--the different names given to Art Nouveau in different geographical contexts highlight the territorial scope and diversity of the style, but also its common features: it was new, modern, young and groundbreaking. Whether in Austria, Spain, Denmark or Russia, Art Nouveau defined itself as something that opposed tradition and broke with the past. Rejecting a classicizing academic grammar, and reaching deep into the fantastical for inspiration (from the imagined history of the medieval to the Orientalist exotic), artists and architects such as Victor Horta, Hector Guimard, Viollet-le-Duc, William Morris, Otto Wagner, Samuel Bing and the Goncourt brothers created a new style with a holistic vision, embracing architecture, painting, graphic art, interior design, textiles, ceramics and metalwork. Imaginative form was matched by innovative building techniques. The architects of Art Nouveau were some of the first to experiment with building with iron, glass, pottery and prefabricated concrete; their buildings offer instructive models of industrial development and collaborative design. Beautifully illustrated and exhaustively researched, The World Atlas of Art Nouveau Architecture brings together a selection of key Art Nouveau buildings in a truly global survey that includes, for the first time, examples of the style outside of Europe. Exemplars of the form were chosen through a rigorous selection process involving a panel of expert advisors with specialist input from each world region. A general introduction to the style grounds the selection, and short essays explain how Art Nouveau differed in different cities and countries. The World Atlas of Art Nouveau Architecture honors one of the world's first truly global modern art movements.

Author : Norman Foster,David Jenkins
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architects
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131278595

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Norman Foster by Norman Foster,David Jenkins Pdf

The works of Norman Foster from 1993 - 2004 are the focus of this book, the fifth instalment of a multi-volume retrospective. The text about each project is accompanied by colour photographs and detailed plans.