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Discover the totally distinctive aesthetic of Tadao Ando, the one architect ever to have gained the self-discipline’s 4 such a lot prestigious prizes: the Pritzker, Carlsberg, Praemium Imperiale, and Kyoto Prize.

Philippe Starck defines him as a “mystic in a rustic that’s now not mystic.” Philip Drew calls his homes “land Artwork” as they “combat to emerge from the earth.” His designs had been defined as haiku made from concrete, water, gentle, and house. However to Ando, real structure isn’t expressed in metaphysics or good looks, However fairly thru house that embodies bodily knowledge.

This completely up to date variation spans the breadth of his whole profession, together with such shocking new tasks because the Shanghai Poly Theater and the Clark Heart on the Clark Artwork Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Each and every challenge is profiled thru pictures and architectural drawings to discover Ando’s remarkable use of concrete, picket, water, gentle, house, and herbal bureaucracy. In response to the large XXL monograph, this variation brings the architect’s definitive profession review to an out there structure.