Tadao Ando: Process and Idea

by Tadao Andō

Comprehensive survey of the works of Tadao Ando from his early projects in the 70s to his most recent work. Includes Fuku House, Wall House, Koshino House, Suntory Museum & Plaza, Chapel on Mt. Rokko, Umemiya House, Izu Project, Nariwa Museum, Langen Foundation, Hombroich Omotesando Hills, Chichu Art Museum, Punta della Dogana Contemporary Art Centre, Abu Dhabi Maritime Museum and many more.

Genres: Architecture

320 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2010

About the author

Tadao Ando is a Japanese self-taught architect. Tadao Ando's body of work is known for the creative use of natural light and for structures that follow natural forms of the landscape, rather than disturbing the landscape by making it conform to the constructed space of a building. Ando's buildings are often characterized by complex three-dimensional circulation paths. These paths interweave between interior and exterior spaces formed both inside large-scale geometric shapes and in the spaces between them.