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Tadao Ando Complete Works 1974 - 1996

Ando's housing complex at Rokko, just outside Kobe, is a complex warren of terraces and balconies and atriums and shafts. The designs for Rokko Housing One (1983) and for Rokko Housing Two (1993) illustrate a range of issues in the traditional architectural vocabulary—the interplay of solid and void, the alternatives of open and closed, the contrasts of light and darkness. read more on wiki More significantly, Ando's noteworthy achievement in these clustered buildings is site specific—the structures survived undamaged after the Great Hanshin Earthquake of 1995.

Tadao Ando: Complete Works

Product Details

    Paperback: 524 pages
    Publisher: Phaidon Press (November 19, 1997)
    Language: English
    ISBN-10: 0714837172
    ISBN-13: 978-0714837178
    Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 8.9 x 1.5 inches

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Tadao Ando Complete Works Collection