Tadao Ando

Following the acclaimed first volume in Tadao Ando's monograph series with Phaidon, Tadao Ando: The Colours of Light (1996), this new volume showcases the continual collaboration between Ando and the photographer Richard Pare. Beginning with the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis, Missouri, in 2001, the book presents Pare’s extraordinary photographs of 28 contemporary projects in locations around the world,...

Tadao Ando is one of the most celebrated architects of our time. Winner of the Pritzker Prize and numerous other international awards, his bold, concrete buildings and their interplay with light, shadow, and nature have become emblematic symbols of the modern world, blending modernist design with Eastern spirituality from his native Japan. Now, at eighty-five, Ando looks back on a...