{"product_id":"ando-complete-works-1975-today","title":"Ando Complete Works 1975 to Today | Tadao Ando Taschen Book","description":"\u003cp\u003eConcrete is not usually the material you reach for when you want warmth. Tadao Ando spent fifty years proving otherwise. This is his complete works gathered into a single volume, tracing everything from the Row House in Sumiyoshi that made his name through to the Shanghai Poly Grand Theater, and it is one of the most quietly influential architecture titles in the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/fluxboutique.co.nz\/collections\/books\"\u003eBooks collection\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndo is the only architect to have won all four of the discipline's major prizes, the Pritzker, the Carlsberg, the Praemium Imperiale and the Kyoto Prize. He was a self-taught boxer before he was an architect, and that outsider path shows in the work. His buildings are made of very few things, usually smooth poured concrete, glass, water and daylight, and the daylight is doing most of the work. Philip Jodidio, who has written more on Ando than almost anyone, profiles each structure across 512 pages with photographs, drawings and plans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eHow big is this edition?\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSmaller than you might expect, and deliberately so. This is the 40th anniversary edition, which brings Taschen's originally oversized tribute down to roughly 22.6 by 16.5cm. It is a dense, hand-sized brick of a book rather than a large-format volume, which makes it far easier to actually read and considerably kinder on the wallet than the XXL original.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWho is it for?\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnyone drawn to Japanese design thinking, minimalism, or the relationship between buildings and light. It sits beautifully alongside \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/fluxboutique.co.nz\/products\/stillness-japanese-aesthetics-in-architecture-design-gestalten\"\u003eStillness\u003c\/a\u003e, which covers the same aesthetic territory from a broader angle, and it makes an excellent gift for an architecture student, a designer, or anyone who has ever stood inside a building and gone quiet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor gifting it is close to unbeatable value, since it carries the authority of a major monograph at the price of an ordinary hardback. Graduations, Christmas and milestone birthdays all suit it, particularly for someone at the start of a design career.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhy You'll Love It\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAndo's full body of work from 1975 onward in one volume\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e512 pages of photography, plans and drawings\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWritten by Philip Jodidio, the leading authority on Ando's work\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCompact 40th anniversary format, genuinely readable rather than purely decorative\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA serious monograph at an accessible price point\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eMaking It Work on a Small Shelf\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis one does not want to be the base of a stack. Its proportions suit standing upright, spine out, among other books, or lying on a bedside table where it will actually get opened. The muted cover works with the concrete-and-timber palette it documents, so it sits well near pale oak, unglazed ceramics and linen. If you are styling a \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/fluxboutique.co.nz\/collections\/coffee-table-styling\"\u003ecoffee table\u003c\/a\u003e, use it as the top layer on a larger book rather than the foundation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54110855430462,"sku":"9783836565868","price":55.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0374\/0149\/files\/2539777f91677447e1085fadc9c07dd3.png?v=1787716728","url":"https:\/\/fluxboutique.co.nz\/products\/ando-complete-works-1975-today","provider":"Flux Boutique","version":"1.0","type":"link"}