Book

Tadao Ando: Complete Works 1975-Today

A broad survey of Ando’s residential, civic, and religious projects across several decades.

monograph

2020

English

Hardcover

740 pages

Tadao Ando Japanese Architecture Concrete Architecture Light Courtyard Houses Sacred Space Monograph Hardcover

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Gallery

Tadao Ando: Complete Works 1975-Today gallery

Azuma House exterior view

Front elevation of Azuma House in Sumiyoshi, Osaka.

Credit: Oiuysdfg

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Tadao Ando: Complete Works 1975-Today gallery

Church of the Light interior view

Interior view of the cruciform light opening in the Church of the Light.

Credit: Bergmann

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Architects

Bureaus

Cities

Works

Edition

Philip Jodidio

Taschen · Cologne

Tadao Ando · Japanese architecture · concrete architecture

Architects

Architect

Tadao Ando

Born 1941 · Osaka, Japan

A self-taught architect known for elemental concrete volumes, calibrated natural light, and intense spatial sequencing.

Bureaus

Bureau

Tadao Ando Architect & Associates

practice · Osaka, Japan

1969

A practice whose work ranges from houses and chapels to museums, civic buildings, and international commissions.

Cities

City

Ibaraki

Osaka Prefecture, Japan

A quieter city in the Osaka region that holds one of the defining religious buildings of late twentieth-century architecture.

City

Osaka

Osaka, Japan

A city of compact urban fabric and precise domestic experiments, central to Tadao Ando's early residential and civic work.

Works

Row House in Sumiyoshi

1976 · Osaka, Japan

House

Tadao Ando

Church of the Light

1989 · Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan

Church

Tadao Ando