Contenido Tadao Ando:Houses

Tadao Houses is a comprehensive collection of residential projects from the world´s most internationally recognized and renowned architect. The exhaustive study includes striking color photographs as well as detailed architectural drawings and plans of over thirty years of Tadao Ando´s residential work,from the Sumiyoshi Row House in 1976 to his most recent houses in Mexico and Sri Lanka
Though prolific in civic and commercial work,Tadao Ando gained recognition for his residential projects early in his career-single-and multiple-family homes constructed solidy of
concrete but ingeniously imbued with light and air. Such natural elements have remained a constant in Ando´s work from his earliest ventures,and each new project demostrates the skill with which he is able to utilize such intangibles as building blocks to construct dwellings that are both intimate and spacious
Tadao Ando´s structure are immensely practical and habitable as well as rigorous and dynamic.While their geometric patterns and concrete material are undoubtedly manmade,these houses evolve strongly connected to the natural evironment,sheltering their inhabitants as living spaces in both senses of the world
With an introductory essay by the architect,exploring his guiding principles behind designing houses,and texts by Phillip Jodidio,a foremost expert of contemporary architecture.
Tadao Ando:Houses is an insider´s guide to the skill and accomplishment of this modern master

Contents

HOUSES: THE ORIGIN OF MY ARCHITECTURE
Tadao Ando

EUCLID AND A RAY OF LIGHT THE HOUSES OF TADAO ANDO
Phillip Jodidio

ROW HOUSE IN SUMIYOSHI ( AZUMA HOUSE )
Osaka,Japan  1978

MATSUTANI HOUSE
Osaka,Japan  1978

KOSHINO HOUSE
Ashiya,Hyogo, Japan 1981,1984

TOMISHIMA HOUSE
Osaka,Japan  1973

ATELIER IN OYODO I
Osaka,Japan  1981

ATELIER IN OYODO II
Osaka,Japan  1978

TEA HOUSE IN OYODO ( VENEER TEA HOUSE )
Osaka,Japan  1985

TEA HOUSE IN OYODO ( BLOCK TEA HOUSE )
Osaka,Japan  1986

TEA HOUSE IN OYODO ( TEN TEA HOUSE )
Osaka,Japan  1988

ATELIER IN OYODO ANNEX
Osaka,Japan  1995

NAKAYAMA HOUSE
Nara Japan 1985

ROKKO HOUSING I
Kobe,Hyoho Japan 1983

ROKKO HOUSING II
Kobe,Hyoho Japan 1993

ROKKO HOUSING III
Kobe,Hyoho Japan 1999

TS BUILDING
Osaka,Japan 1986

KIDOSAKI HOUSE
Setagaya,Tokyo Japan 1986

LEE HOUSE
Funabashi Chiba,Japan 1993

HOUSE IN CHICAGO
Chicago,Illinois USA

TOWN HOUSE IN HIRANO ( NOMI HOUSE )
Osaka,Japan 1996

INVISIBLE HOUSE
Treviso Italy 2004

4X4 HOUSE
Kobe,hyogo,Japan 2003

PENTHOUSE IN MANHATTAN  
New York,USA 1996

HOUSE IN MALIBU
Malibu,California USA 2003

GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE HOUSE
San Francisco,California USA 2004

HOUSE IN USTUBO PARK
Osaka,Japan 2010

HOUSE IN SRI LANKA
Weligama,Sri Lanka 2008

HOUSE IN MONTERREY
Monterrey,Mexico 2011

TIME LINE OF HOUSE