Tadao Ando: The Colours of Light - Softcover

Pare, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0714833746 ISBN 13: 9780714833743

Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd, 1996

Synopsis

This work reveals Tadao Ando's architecture through the medium of Richard Pare's photography. Pare works without the aid of artificial lighting to capture as directly as possible the light, colour and atmosphere of Ando's spaces. The book includes 22 of Ando's buildings from the last eight years and the photographs are accompanied by Ando's sketches, drawings and a brief decription. The introductory essay by Heneghan follows a short piece by Ando himself.

About this title

Product Description

2000 hardback edition, without dustjacket, but embossed hardcover, in very good condition, very minor wear & inscription in pen as an Xmas 2000 gift. Pages are excellent. Prompt UK dispatch, all proceeds to Wakefield Hospice.

Review

The Colours of Light is a beautiful, compact, dense little book that showcases English photographer Richard Pare's stunning takes on the respected, influential Japanese architect Tadao Ando. Pare photographed Ando's work over a 10-year period and, with remarkable consistency, has realised the intricacies of Ando's constructed confrontations between architecture and nature. Pare translates this dialogue with great skill in his photographs and easily manages to convey (convert?) the conversations about space, the absence/presence dialectic, that all buildings declaim. Pare, in his overview essay at the end of the book, says: "Space itself is immovable. It has no movement, though all movement is in space. All space is actually static, and potentially dynamic. We conceive space statically, but we experience it dynamically. The space that is rendered in a photograph is a static space of potential movement". His photographs bear out, but overcome, this tension. Tom Heneghan's introduction wonders if Pare's career as a "photographer of architecture rather than an architectural photographer" have enabled him to so keenly grasp the nature of Ando's work. Whatever the reason this is a remarkable collection. -- Mark Thwaite

Edition details

• Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0714833746
• ISBN 13: 9780714833743
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288