Casa BRUTUS No. 30
Casa BRUTUS No. 30: The Grand Tour with ANDO
Chieko Yoshiie (Editor in Chief)
Casa BRUTUS, September 2002
Paperback | 9 x 11-1/4 inches | 164 pages | Japanese/English
FROM THE INTRODUCTION:
For four years from 1965 until the founding of his architectural firm, Ando Tadao worked a part-time in jobs related to architecture to earn money to travel throughout Europe and the United States. Ando refers to this time in his life as his "Grand Tour." Casa asked Ando about the importance of taking such journeys.
dDAB COMMENTARY/IMAGES:
The "world tour" that photographer Iwan Baan takes readers on in the summer 2021 issue of See All This, reviewed yesterday, reminded me of another, much older magazine in my library: the September 2002 issue of Casa BRUTUS that takes readers on "The Grand Tour with ANDO." The semi-bilingual issue follows Japanese architect Tadao Ando around the world, retracing the steps of his own "grand tour" in the 1960s and then looking at Ando's own architecture in Japan and around the world. Rather than writing a review of such an old issue (one that I think might have been updated years later, though I can't confirm that), I've snapped some photos from inside the issue and present those below with captions. So much has been written on Ando that only die-hard fans will want to search out this old issue, especially ones in Japan or who know Japanese, given that only portions of the Japanese text we...
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