Tadao Ando, The Colours of Light,9780714839998

Tadao Ando, The Colours of Light

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ISBN13: 9780714839998
ISBN10: 071483999X
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-01-10
Publisher(s): Phaidon Press
List Price: $22.95

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Summary

The result of ten years of collaboration between English photographer Richardare and the internationally renowned Japanese architect Tadao Ando, thisook provides a photographic view of Ando's work. Pare has built up aortfolio of 200 images in which he has tried to distil the essence of eachuilding. The book approaches Ando's work from a different angle, exploringhe atmosphere, light and shade of his spaces.

Author Biography

Richard Pare is Consulting Curator of Photography for the Canadian Center for Architecture and has exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art and the Max Protetch Gallery in New York.

Tom Heneghan was educated at the Architectural Association in London, where he taught from 1979. In 1990, he was invited by Arata Isozaki to participate in the 'Kumamoto Art Polis' programme in Japan. He is Professor at Kogakuin University in Tokyo.

Table of Contents

Foreword 9(2)
Tadao Ando
Tom Heneghan-Architecture and Ethics
11(22)
The Colours of Light-the Plates
33(1)
Atelier in Oyodo I
34(8)
Atelier in Oyodo II
42(8)
Noguchi House
50(4)
Koshino House
54(6)
Kidosaki House
60(14)
Collezione
74(4)
Church of the Light
78(6)
Tent Tea House
84(4)
Hata House
88(4)
Galleria Akka
92(4)
Oxy Unagidani
96(4)
Chapel on Mount Rokko
100(6)
Old/New Rokko Restaurant
106(4)
Children's Museum
110(6)
Raika Headquarters Building
116(8)
Museum of Literature
124(6)
Church on the Water
130(9)
Forest of Tombs Museum
139(7)
Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum
146(10)
Rokko Housing II
156(6)
Chikatsu-Asuka Historical Museum
162(6)
Vitra Seminar House
168(6)
Water Temple
174(10)
Nariwa Museum
184(10)
Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum Annexe
194(8)
FABRICA, Benetton Research Centre
202(8)
Meditation Space, UNESCO
210(8)
Afterword 218(6)
Richard Pare
Acknowledgements 224(1)
The Projects 225(55)
List of Major Works 280

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