Tadao Ando Modern Art Museum of Ft. Worth - Hardcover

Jodidio, Philip

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0847830152 ISBN 13: 9780847830152

Publisher: Rizzoli, 2008

Synopsis

A self-taught architect, Tadao Ando combines the influences of Japanese building traditions with the elegance of modernism. His projects encourage contemplation and demonstrate a reverence for essential forms. Respected for his powerful, meditative spaces and his sensual yet refined use of ordinary materials—wood, steel, concrete, glass—Ando’s work resonates with profound intelligence, unpretentious elegance, and an almost palpable sense of harmony. The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth is comprised of five pavilions that seem to float on a pool of water. Inside, diffuse and reflected natural light bathe the interior and the art in an even glow. This book thoroughly and luxuriously documents Ando’s most recent masterpiece with glorious new color photography of the building, the reflecting pools, the grand interior spaces, and the galleries.

About this title

About the Author:

Philip Jodidio has written more than fifteen books on contemporary architecture, including monographs on Tadao Ando, Norman Foster, Richard Meier, and Alvaro Siza. He is the author of Rizzoli’s Tadao Ando at Naoshima: Art, Architecture, Nature. He was the Editor in Chief of Connaissance des Arts from 1980 to 2002.

Review:

"The book is a valentine to the museum, showing it in its most favorable light--morning, noon and night."
~Star Telegram

About this edition

• Publisher: Rizzoli
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0847830152
• ISBN 13: 9780847830152
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 156