Tadao Ando: Details 1

by Peter Eisenman (Contributor)

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Genres: Architecture

163 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

Peter Eisenman is an American architect. Eisenman's professional work is often referred to as formalist, deconstructive, late avant-garde, late or high modernist, etc. A certain fragmenting of forms visible in some of Eisenman's projects has been identified as characteristic of an eclectic group of architects that were (self-)labeled as deconstructivists, and who were featured in an exhibition by the same name at the Museum of Modern Art. The heading also refers to the storied relationship and collaborations between Peter Eisenman and post-structuralist thinker Jacques Derrida.

Reviews

[Peter Kelly · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good book, for what it is. It's as well to note however, despite the title, students should heed a note of caution. This is not really Ando's details, rather it is a collection of reduced, or watered down drawings, among which some very very simplified representations of the actual construction details. Personally, I would still recommend the Tadao Ando: Details series as a good starting point, albeit I personally find the esoteric collage overlays of different scale views not completely helpful. There are more detailed Ando construction drawings around in other titles, which taken together with titles like this, do amount to something. Actually, even as a student beginning architecture, if you pore over all of the volumes of this series, you will constantly come up with new questions, holes in the information, which otherwise would allow what's presented to be coherent in any construction or detailed design sense. Too often, it feels to me like they have taken too extreme an approach with the reduction of the information, down to a point that to describe the schemes presented as being "details" is almost meaningless, for any but perhaps completely lay readers. I'm inclined to believe that this is not arbitrary however, and fits in with the intentional obscurity present in any interview where someone asks anything related to something more construction based, rather than in the realm of the lyrical, prompting a suitably haiku-esque soundbite in return. So, you pays your money, you takes your chances. Ultimately, if you read this in your library, and subsequently still buy it, and question the legitimacy or your own sense in paying so much for such abstract pictorial collages, bound in a cover audaciously claiming to be "Details", then you will not be alone in the sentiment, but you will return to these pretty pictures, for what they are, and with some effort, glean titbits useful to the start of your journey toward becoming an architect.

[Tamara · Rating 5 out of 5]

great book!