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TADAO ANDO Darell Wayne Fields, editor |
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Ando's work has been admired since the beginning of his career when his designs were included in the exhibition A New Wave in Japanese Architecture which toured the United States in 1978. Western architects and critics were astonished to see that the materiality of concrete acquired such perfection in Ando's work. The design community was deeply affected by the precision of his designs and ultimately by the mysterious–I would dare say religious–aura that permeates his architecture.
Throughout his work, Ando attempts something that is extremely difficult: he tries to express the essence of Japanese architecture with an architectural language that he learned primarily in the most developed Western cultures. Such an attempt, one that often ends in a deadlock of uninspired historicism, moves Ando toward an architecture that is personal as well as strongly connected to the society to which it is addressed and with the architectural issues he wishes to raise. Although he is self-taught and steeped in Western architecture, Ando's work in innately Japanese, a fact which ultimately allows him to transcend cultural boundaries.
I greatly admire Ando's consistency. He has the ability to produce an architecture that has all of the assets of the best professionalism, yet he maintains high standards in expressing his intellectual intentions. He struggles with achieving architectural programs that coincide with the idea of building he pursues, and he succeeds in achieving such coincidence without detriment to the program or to his architecture. During the GSD's exhibition of his work, which hung in Gund Hall Gallery in the spring of 1990, the students and other observers, along with myself, especially, enjoyed living with his drawings and construction documents; to me, this is where his best architectural achievements emerge.
Ando's work has received a tremendous amount of recognition. He has been awarded the Alvar Aalto Medal as well as the Gold Medal from the French Academy of Architecture. He has served as visiting professor at Columbia and Yale Universities as well as the Kenzo Tange Visiting Design Critic at the GSD. He has also lectured world-wide and seen his work published in numerous magazine articles and books. Through the publication of this catalogue, the Graduate School of Design wishes to further Tadao Ando's deserved recognition.
– Jose Rafael Moñeo from the Foreword
Contents
Foreword
Jose Rafael Moñeo
An Offering to Absence
Kazuyaki Negishi
Beyond Dichotomy toward a Dialectic Synthesis
Katsuhiro Kobayashi
Dormant Lines
Darell Wayne Fields
Construction Documents
Contributors
Publication Title
Tadao Ando: Dormant Lines
Year Published
1991, Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Editor
Darell Wayne Fields
Format:
63 pages, black and white and color photographs, images, essays, and
drawings.
In Loeb Library:
Main Collection: NA1559.A5 T34x
Special Collections: Rare NA1559.A5 T34x