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"Tadao Ando is one of the world's greatest living architects. This book provides an introduction to Ando's work, including private homes, churches, museums, apartment complexes, and cultural spaces throughout Japan, and in France, Italy, Spain, and the USA"--Publisher's description.
This comprehensive monograph on Pritzker Prize-winning architect Tadao Ando covers the span of his impressive career, with previously unpublished material and insight into his sources of inspiration. This in-depth monograph offers insight into Tadao Ando's sober and elegant architecture through photographs, architectural drawings, and descriptions of eighty of his most significant works. His notable works span the globe: London's Tate Modern; St. Louis's Pulitzer Arts Foundation; Osaka's Church of the Light; Paris's UNESCO Meditation Space; Venice's Palazzo Grassi; Abu Dhabi's Maritime Museum; and exceptional buildings in South Korea, Taiwan, China, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Germany, and throughout...
Discusses major themes in the work of the influential contemporary Japanese architect, and presents bandw photos, floor plans, and notes on his most important projects and buildings, including residences, public buildings, and unbuilt projects. Includes chronologies of the architect's life and works. Contains text in English side-by-side with German text. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
A companion volume to the author's successful text, Analysing Architecture, this book follows the same approach and format to explore conceptual themes in architecture further.
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In 1930, when Albert Frey (1903-1998) came to the US from his native Switzerland, he brought the influence of his mentor, Le Corbusier, with him. This book features introductory essays exploring the architect's life and work, touching on family and background as well as collaborations with other architects.
Born 1950, Waro Kisho belongs to the generation of Japanese architects that emerged from Tadao Ando.
In the sixteenth century, in what is now modern-day Peru and Bolivia, Andean communities were forcibly removed from their traditional villages by Spanish colonizers and resettled in planned, self-governed towns modeled after those in Spain. But rather than merely conforming to Spanish cultural and political norms, indigenous Andeans adopted and gradually refashioned the religious practices dedicated to Christian saints and political institutions imposed on them, laying claim to their own rights and the sovereignty of the collective. The People Are King shows how common Andean people produced a new kind of civil society over three centuries of colonialism, merging their traditional understand...
This is a revised and updated version of the classic first edition.
Active during a period of transition in architecture, and playing a key role in 19th century design, Schinkel enjoyed nearly every honour his native Prussia and contemporary Europe could bestow upon an architect.