TADAO ANDO. SKETCHES, DRAWINGS, AND ARCHITECTURE
-5%

TADAO ANDO. SKETCHES, DRAWINGS, AND ARCHITECTURE

TADAO ANDO

150,00 €
142,50 €
IVA incluido
En preventa o temporalmente sin stock
Editorial:
TASCHEN
Año de edición:
2025
Materias
ISBN:
978-3-8365-8601-6
Páginas:
594
Encuadernación:
Cartoné
150,00 €
142,50 €
IVA incluido
Añadir a libros favoritos
Añadir a lista de deseos

This hugely revealing journey through the mind and memory of one of architecture’s great poets is told in Tadao Ando’s own words. A very personal volume, it traces five decades of prolific creativity, gathering over 750 sketches, models, and technical drawings that reveal the essence of his practice. From the raw immediacy of pencil lines to the precision of technical drawings, witness the evolution of many of his most famous projects- among them Row House in Sumiyoshi, Rokko Housing, Chichu Art Museum, Bourse de Commerce-not as isolated moments of inspiration, but as living architectural projects, shaped by time, travel, and reflection.

More than a monograph, this is a map of Ando’s inner landscape. He remembers light of a stone monastery in southern France, the deep spatial resonance of a stepwell in Ahmedabad, and the labyrinthine mystery of cave dwellings in Cappadocia. Experienced during his early travels in his youth, these memories became seeds. Learn how these fragments of experience, filtered through body and emotion, reemerged as intense spatial dramas, rendered in concrete, glass and light.

Ando has remained faithful to the fragility of the hand-drawn line. For him, it is not the slick perfection of digital models, but the struggle and spontaneity of sketching that captures the true heartbeat of architecture. This book is both a record and a reverie: a meditation on how buildings begin, and how they belong to the flow of time, to memory, and the enduring pursuit of beauty. Also included is an appendix with a complete listing of Ando’s built and unbuilt projects.

In Ando’s own words: “Our imaginations may expand endlessly, shaping the invisible scenes in our minds-this is the never-ending story of architecture.”
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Un viaje profundamente revelador a través de la mente y la memoria de uno de los grandes poetas de la arquitectura, narrado por el propio Tadao Ando. Este volumen, profundamente personal, recorre cinco décadas de prolífica creatividad a través de más de 750 bocetos, maquetas y dibujos técnicos que capturan la esencia de su trabajo. Desde la cruda inmediatez de las líneas a lápiz hasta la meticulosa precisión de los dibujos técnicos, sea testigo de la evolución de muchos de sus proyectos más emblemáticos —como la Casa Adosada de Sumiyoshi, las Viviendas Rokko, el Museo de Arte Chichu y la Bolsa de Comercio—, que no fueron momentos aislados de inspiración, sino obras vivas moldeadas por el tiempo, los viajes y la reflexión.

Más que una monografía, este libro es un mapa del paisaje interior de Ando. Evoca la luz de un monasterio de piedra en el sur de Francia, la profunda resonancia espacial de un pozo escalonado en Ahmedabad y el misterio laberíntico de las viviendas cueva en Capadocia. Estos recuerdos, reunidos durante sus primeros viajes de juventud, germinaron como semillas. Descubra cómo estos fragmentos de experiencia, filtrados a través del cuerpo y la emoción, resurgen como intensos dramas espaciales, materializados en hormigón, vidrio y luz.

Ando se ha mantenido fiel a la fragilidad de la línea trazada a mano. Para él, la dificultad y la espontaneidad del boceto es lo que captura el verdadero latido de la arquitectura, no la impecable perfección de los modelos digitales. Este libro es al mismo tiempo registro y ensoñación: una meditación sobre el modo en que los edificios surgen, y cómo pertenecen al fluir del tiempo, a la memoria y a la búsqueda constante de la belleza. Incluye también un apéndice con una lista completa de los proyectos construidos y no construidos de Ando.

En palabras del propio Ando: “Nuestra imaginación puede expandirse infinitamente, dando forma a escenas invisibles en nuestras mentes; esta es la historia interminable de la arquitectura”.

Artículos relacionados

  • THE LITTLE PRINCE (MINALIMA EDITION)
    SAINT-EXUPÉRY, ANTOINE DE
    Rediscover the magic of one of the most iconic classics ever in this 80th anniversary keepsake edition of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince, featuring the magnificent illustrations of MinaLima and eight dazzling, interactive paper inserts.All grown-ups were once children—although few of them remember it.A pilot crashes his plane in the Sahara Desert. There, far away ...
    Disponibilidad inmediata.

    48,00 €45,60 €

  • BIRDS
    SCHAMA, SIMON
    Simon Schama explores our enduring fascination with birds in a visually stunning art book‘No other creatures have fixed themselves so obsessively and ubiquitously in our restless, earth-stuck imagination as birds… the fixation painted, imprinted, sculpted, filmed in our art.’ – Simon SchamaFrom Icarus to Peter Pan, who hasn’t dreamt of flying? Birds are the embodiment of our de...
    Disponibilidad inmediata.

    35,00 €33,25 €

  • UNFORGETTABLE
    TREANOR, VIRGINIA / DAM, FREDERICA
    Unforgettable highlights over 40 female artists from the seventeenth-century Low Countries, challenging their historical obscurity and showcasing their diverse contributions to art. Accompanies an exhibition at NMWA from 26 September 2025 to 11 January 2026, and at MSK from 7 March 2026 to 31 May 2026.The catalog spotlights the overlooked contributions of female artists in the ...
    Disponibilidad inmediata.

    59,00 €56,05 €

  • A FICTIONAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY II
    VAN DE VELDE, RINUS
    Second part of the fictional autobiography of artist Rinus Van de Velde Rinus Van de Velde (1983) is one of the most intriguing contemporary artists of our time. He gained recognition for his monumental charcoal drawings, but his oeuvre now encompasses a wide range of media, including installations, film, ceramics, and pencil drawings. Using all these diverse forms, Van de Veld...
    Disponibilidad inmediata.

    64,50 €61,28 €

  • DRACULA
    STOKER, BRAM
    A thirst for blood, nocturnal debauchery, hypnotic trances ... this is Dracula. Jonathan Harker is travelling to Castle Dracula to see the Transylvanian noble, Count Dracula. He is begged by locals not to go there, because on the eve of St. George's Day, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will come full sway. But business must be done, so Jonathan...
    Disponibilidad inmediata.

    23,00 €21,85 €

  • RUMPELSTILTSKIN
    BARNETT, MAC / , CARSON ELLIS
    In the follow-up to the highly acclaimed, instant bestseller, The Three Billy Goats Gruff, comes the second ?brilliant and highly anticipated fairy tale retelling from the New York Times bestselling and Caldecott Award-winning creators, Mac Barnett and Carson Ellis.Once upon a time there was a clever girl with a not-so-clever father. When her father claims she can spin straw in...
    Disponibilidad inmediata.

    32,00 €30,40 €