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Atlas: Tadao Ando (Hardcover)
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Atlas: Tadao Ando (Hardcover)
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This highly original and personal exploration of Tadao Ando's work,
one of Japan's leading architects, traverses both the physical and
spiritual world. In 2012, Philippe Se clier visited Tadao Ando's
iconic Church of the Light, and was immediately compelled to
journey around the world to further study the architect's
buildings. This unique presentation of Ando's work is the result of
what turned into a nine-year project to photograph 130 buildings.
Walking around each structure, trying to find the proper framing,
helped Se clier understand Ando's genius for siting and
composition. Loosely organized by chronology, each building is
represented in numerous black and white images, arranged like a
mosaic on the page. These fragmented views correspond to Ando's own
philosophy of the logic of structure and geometry. This "atlas"
embraces not only the geographic but also thematic range of Ando's
oeuvre-from transit stations in Tokyo and Kobe to art museums in
Fort Worth, Texas and Provence, France; from an artists' retreat on
the Mexican coast to the now-demolished Piccadilly Gardens in
Manchester, England; from a theater in Milan, Italy, to an upscale
restaurant in New York City. Se clier's photographs of Ando's
numerous religious structures brilliantly illustrate his use of
light and shadow to evoke spiritual depth and timelessness while
his short texts offer concise observations of each building. A
helpful appendix pinpoints the geographic diversity and range of
Ando's oeuvre.
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