Tadao Ando: The Challange (Centre Pompidou)
Frédéric Migayrou, Yuki Yoshikawa (Eds.)
Editions du Centre Pompidou, 2019
€45,00
Retrospective that questions the principles of creation of the Japanese architect, his use of smooth concrete, the prominence of simple geometric volumes, the integration of natural elements – such as light or water – in its spatial devices, or the importance he places on the intensity of the body experience generated by his architecture.
Self-taught, Tadao Ando is strongly marked by the discovery of the work of Le Corbusier. After several trips to the United States, Europe and Africa, where he studied the great masterpieces of architecture, he returned to Japan in 1969 and founded his agency in Osaka.
Awarded with several honors, including the prestigious Pritzker Prize in 1995, he is now working on numerous monumental projects, including the new Pinault Foundation museum housed in the former Paris Bourse de Commerce.
This catalog shows the sober and elegant work of the architect through seventy of his most beautiful projects. The monograph is enriched by three portfolios presenting Tadao Ando’s black and white photographs, his pencil drawings and, for the first time reproduced, his travel diaries, sources of inspiration for his first creations.
ISBN: 9782080204042
