Tadao Ando Works Vol.4! Insatiable creative challenge
TOTO Publishing published "Architecture of Tadao Ando 4" on February 24, 2015.

This book is the fourth collection of works that introduces the works of architect Tadao Ando. In Volume 1, I introduced residential works, in Volume 2, overseas works, and in Volume 3, I introduced domestic projects. , 19 selected latest works completed since 2008 are introduced.

Six and a half years have passed since the publication of Tadao Ando's Architecture 3 (October 2008), which was originally planned as a three-volume series. Works from Asia, which have been attracting attention in recent years, will be introduced through beautiful photographs, drawings, sketches and commentary by Mr. Ando. Here, you can see the trajectory of Mr. Ando's further challenges crystallized, and you can feel the "power" of architecture that transcends time.

At the end of the book, in addition to design activities, we will introduce the full range of various activities in the “Urban Project”, a challenge to create cities and environments that Mr. Ando has been working on for many years. Deeply involved in the reconstruction of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake and the Great East Japan Earthquake, Mr. Ando's passionate thoughts that transcend the framework of an architect are now being talked about.

From Mr. Ando's passion for design and the way he continues to take on challenges, we can learn a lot about the conceptual power, thinking power, and ability to take action necessary to survive in the future, and it gives us courage.

This is a book that should be read not only by those involved in architecture, but also by people in various fields."

Tadao Ando, born in 1941 is one of the most renowned contemporary Japanese architects. Characteristics of his work include large expanses of unadorned architectural concrete walls combined with wooden or stone floors and large windows. Active natural elements, like sun, rain, and wind are a distinctive inclusion to his style. He has designed many notable buildings, including Row House in Sumiyoshi, Osaka, 1976, which gave him the Annual Prize of Architectural Institute of Japan in 1979, Church of the Light, Osaka, 1989, Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis, 2001, Armani Teatro, Milan, 2001, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 2002 and 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT in Tokyo, 2007. Among many awards he has received are; Gold Medal of Architecture, Academie d’Architecture (French Academy of Architecture) in 1989, The Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1995, Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects in 2002, and Gold Medal of Union Internationale des Architectes in 2005. Ando is an honorary member of the American Institute of Architects, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as the Royal Academy of Arts in London. He was also a visiting professor at Yale, Columbia, UC Barkley, and Harvard Universities.