Tadao Ando: The Colours of Light
Richard Pare
Phaidon, January 2000 (Mini Edition)

Hardcover | 5-1/2 x 6-1/2 inches | 284 pages | 350 illustrations | English | ISBN: 978-0714839998

Publisher Description:
An exquisite work of art in its own right, this book is the result of ten years' collaboration between the English photographer Richard Pare and the internationally renowned Japanese architect Tadao Ando. This new edition features all the same extraordinary photographs, completely remastered from the original negatives, bringing this beautiful volume back to life. Pare's remarkable images shed new light on this important body of work, while Ando's original line drawings and sketches provide unparalleled insight into his creative process.dDAB Commentary: In 1996, when the first, large edition of Richard Pare's The Colours of Light was published by Phaidon, Japanese architect Tadao Ando was known for some small commissions: houses, churches, and museums, mainly. It was, in a way, the end of the golden era of Ando, before his style of sensual concrete architecture was supersized for many more museums as well as offices and other buildings all over the world. Ask an architect what their favorite Ando building is and you'll probably hear Church of the Light (1989) before, say, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (2002). Translating his tactile concrete architecture suited for intimate spaces of contemplation to larger, more impersonal commissions could not have bee...