Tadao Ando Modern Art Museum of Ft. Worth

by JODIDIO, PHILIPANDO, TADAO

• ISBN13: 9780847830152
• ISBN10: 0847830152
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-06-10
• Publisher: Rizzoli

Summary

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 materialswood, steel, concrete, glassAndo'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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Director's foreword	p. 6
Architect's statement	p. 11
At long last, modern	p. 15
Ando and art	p. 107
Floor plans, sections, and elevations	p. 147
Architectural data	p. 152
Long range planning and architectural review committee and key project team members	p. 153
List of photographs of the galleries	p. 154
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