安藤忠雄 光の色

by Tadao Andō

The Colours of Light is a beautiful, dense little book that showcases English photographer Richard Pare's stunning takes on the respected, influential Japanese architect Tadao Ando. Pare photographed Ando's work over a 10-year period, and with a remarkable consistency has realized the intricacies of Ando's constructed confrontations between architecture and nature. Pare translates this dialogue with great skill in his photographs and easily manages to convey (convert?) the conversations about space, the absence/presence dialectic, that all buildings declaim. In his overview essay at the end of the book, Pare "Space itself is immovable. It has no movement, though all movement is in space. All space is actually static, and potentially dynamic. We conceive space statically, but we experience it dynamically. The space that is rendered in a photograph is a static space of potential movement." His photographs bear out, but overcome, this tension. Tom Heneghan's introduction wonders if Pare's career as a "photographer of architecture rather than an architectural photographer" has enabled him to so keenly grasp the nature of Ando's work. Whatever the reason, this is a remarkable collection. --Mark Thwaite, Amazon.co.uk

Genres: Architecture, Nonfiction, Japan, Reference, Design, Art

Tankobon Hardcover

First published November 1, 1996

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.

Reviews

[Nouran Osama · Rating 5 out of 5]

I would recommend this book to all architects who feel stuck. We are all stuck one way or the other. When I started it, I thought I would be only admiring Tadao Ando's architecture. The clear geomtry and the interesting spaces that happen through their intersection, the connection with the surroundings and interplay of materials and light or the building being a series of experiences. But it helped me think about other things. Like how new building prototypes are a major contribution to good architecture. Or how an architect can maintain personality but come up with different outcomes each time. It is also a good intorduction to architecture photography.

[Afra Anan Anan Saba · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautifully curated piece of work. A dialogue between the photographer, the architect, and the architectural marvels.

[Jude · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautiful photographies of Tadao Ando's work. The introduction on Tadao Ando's architecture and philosophy does a great job at setting the scene for Richard Pare's work. A great collaboration!

[Rebecca Hays · Rating 3 out of 5]

It’s hard to get the scope or feel in the small edition.

[Meg · Rating 2 out of 5]

The mini edition is too small to really appreciate. It also seems like the photographer took all his photos on cloudy days and the architecture doesn't really pop.

[Mitya Haliimah · Rating 4 out of 5]

this book contains the works of Tadao Ando. in the front pages we will be presented by his thoughts about architecture and the philosophy of his works, then follows with the photographs of his works. reading this book will make us learn to 'read' through photographs about how Tadao Ando manages to blend his architecture within the surrounding, and how he engages the natural elements especially the light as a part of his buildings.

[Amelia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beautiful.

[Windry · Rating 3 out of 5]

covernya bagus :D