Tadao Ando: Complete Works

Ando is the only architect to have won the discipline's four most prestigious prizes: the Pritzker Carlsberg Praemium Imperiale and Kyoto Prize. 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 Ando's illustrious career presents his complete works to date.