Get to know Tadao Ando, the only architect to have won the discipline's four most prestigious prizes: the Pritzker, Carlsberg, Praemium Imperiale, and Kyoto Prize. This succinct introduction explores Ando's unique blend of calm Japanese tradition and compelling modernism across private homes, churches, fashion stores, museums, and more.
Residents bring life into a house and shape its character. Photographer and social anthropologist Barbel Hogner was well aware of this phenomenon when she moved into the Le Corbusier building in Berlin as 'artist-in-residence' in 2007. This work captures the co-relation in between Le Corbusier's vanguard architecture and its residents with images.
Discover some of the world's most innovative buildings. TASCHEN brings back its best-selling overview of contemporary architecture in a completely revised, updated edition with 50 new entries highlighting recent key projects, including Herzog & de Meuron's Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg and Santiago Calatrava's World Trade Center Transportation Hub...
In this book, we review a set of Plan:b projects in Colombia through the environmental, social, and voluntary constraints we faced, and the interim agreements we built around them.