<div class="x_margin-bottom" id="x_description_text_headlines"><div><strong>Modern minimalism with a Japanese touch</strong></div><div>&nbsp;</div></div><div class="x_description_text"><div class="x_margin-bottom" id="x_description_text">Philippe Starck describes him as a &quot;mystic in a country which is no longer mystic.&quot; Drew Philip calls his buildings &quot;land art&quot; that &quot;struggle to emerge from the earth.&quot; He is the only architect to have won the discipline`s four most prestigious prizes: the Pritzker, Carlsberg, Praemium Imperiale, and Kyoto Prize. His name is Tadao Ando, and he is one of the world`s greatest living architects. Combining influences from Japanese tradition with the best of Modernism, Ando has developed a completely unique building aesthetic that makes use of concrete, wood, water, light, space, and nature in a way that has never been witnessed elsewhere in architecture.<br><br>This book provides the perfect introduction to Ando`s work, including private homes, churches, museums, apartment complexes, and cultural spaces throughout Japan, and in France, Italy, Spain, and the USA.</div><div class="x_margin-bottom">&nbsp;</div><div class="x_margin-bottom" id="x_series_text" style="display:block"><strong>About the Series:</strong><br>Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Architecture Series features:<ul><li>an introduction to the life and work of the architect </li><li>the major works in chronological order </li><li>information about the clients, architectural preconditions as well as construction problems and resolutions</li><li>a list of all the selected works and a map indicating the locations of the best and most famous buildings</li><li>approximately 120 illustrations (photographs, sketches, drafts and plans) </li></ul></div></div>