Tadao Ando is Japan s leading contemporary architect. Working primarily in structural concrete, alongside subtle details in natural materials like wood and stone, Ando has received the Pritzker Prize in 1995 and the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal in 2002. Richard Pare is a photographer and founding curator of photography at the Canadian Centre for Architecture. He has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Martin Gropiusbau in Berlin, and the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Dominique Perrault is a French architect and urban planner.
Praise for Volume 1, Tadao Ando: Colours of Light: ‘Exquisitely photographed by Richard Pare, the details of Mr Ando’s houses, office buildings, meditation spaces and churches haunt the retina.’ – New York Times ‘A superb example of a monograph that is more than simply a catalog of buildings. Richard Pare’s photographs beautifully capture the abstraction, the sublime simplicity, the materiality, and the quality of time (lines) in Ando’s work.‘ – Jury of the American Institute of Architects