Tadao Ando 1941 | The Geometry of Human Space

Published by TASCHEN, one of the world's foremost art publishers, Tadao Ando: 1941: The Geometry of Human Space is an excellent introduction and viewing guide for comprehensively understanding the core design philosophy of Tadao Ando, the legendary architect of whom contemporary Japan is proud.

The book focuses on how Ando sublimated "geometry" into physical spaces that hold human emotion and the light and shadow of nature. From the Row House in Sumiyoshi, the early masterpiece that made his name resound in the architectural world, to the Church of the Light and the Church on the Water, which fuse light and the sacred to the utmost, and the Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum (and the later series of Naoshima buildings, such as the Chichu Art Museum), which coexists with the natural landscape. Through many valuable architectural drawings, beautiful large-format photographs and accessible yet profound expert commentary, it deeply analyses the legendary path by which he, self-taught in architecture and with the unusual background of a former boxer, rose to become a winner of the Pritzker Prize, known as the Nobel Prize of architecture.

Publisher: TASCHEN
Publication year: 2006
Pages: 96
Dimensions: 230 × 186 mm
Language: English

Tadao Ando / Architecture Monograph / Contemporary Architecture