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Publication Date: August 21, 2011

Like its successful predecessors 10x10 (published in 2000) and 10x10_2 (published in 2005), 10x10_3 is a comprehensive overview of contemporary world architecture. Generously illustrated, this volume presents 100 of the world's most exceptional emerging architects, selected by 10 esteemed members of the international architecture community.

Arranged alphabetically by architect, the book features more than 1,500 illustrations and approximately 250 buildings and projects from the past five years, including recently built work as well as competition entries. The result will be an up-to-the-minute collection representing the best of both global and regional architecture around the world.

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Paperback: 444 pages
Publisher: Phaidon Press (August 21, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0714862525
ISBN-13: 978-0714862521
Product Dimensions: 11.7 x 1.5 x 11.7 inches

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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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