TADAO ANDO

Tadao Ando (born 1941) is Japan's leading architect and designer, with an extraordinary international reputation. This comprehensive catalog of Ando's work examines in detail more than 100 buildings and projects, all illustrated by drawings, sketches, plans, and other materials from the architect's studio. Francesco Dal Co introduces this exhaustive survey, which ranges from the smallest of Ando's private homes from the 1970s to large commissions such as the Church on the Water in Hokkaido (1988), the Japanese Pavilion for Expo 92 in Seville and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Naoshima (1992).

A revealing interview with Ando, ​​conducted by Hiroshi Maruyama, accompanies a series of essays on Ando's architecture written by a range of respected international critics including Peter Eisenman, Kenneth Frampton, Tom Heneghan and François Chaslin, along with selected writings by Ando himself.