Ando: Complete Works

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The Tadao touch: Andos complete works to date New format - new price! ""In architecture there is a part that is the result of logical reasoning and a part that is created through the senses. There is always a point where they clash. I dont think architecture can be created without that collision."" -Tadao Ando Philippe Starck describes him as a ""mystic in a country which is no longer mystic."" Philip Drew calls his buildings ""land art"" that ""struggle to emerge from the earth."" He is the only architect to have won the disciplines four most prestigious prizes: the Pritzker Carlsberg Praemium Imperiale and Kyoto Prize. His name is Tadao Ando and he is the worlds greatest living architect. Combining influences from Japanese tradition with the best of Modernism Ando has developed a completely unique building aesthetic that makes use of concrete wood water light space and nature in a way that has never been witnessed in architecture. Ando has designed award-winning private homes churches museums apartment complexes and cultural spaces throughout Japan as well as in France Italy Spain and the USA. This book created at the height of Andos illustrious career presents his complete works to date.