Tadao Ando: The Process of Creation Catalog

by Tadao Ando

Published in 2005

Price: $1,500.00, signed and with drawing

Tadao Ando: The Process of Creation catalog consists of ten architecture project drawings each bound separately in emaki-style which is a handscroll folded like an accordion album, with separate volumes of description of each project, photographs and an essay by Tadao Ando. All eleven volumes are neatly contained in a silk-screened acrylic slipcase.

The ten architecture project drawings featured in this catalog are:

Church of the Light
Rokko Housing I, II, III
Chikatsu-Asuku Historical Museum, Osaka
Hanshin Awaji Earthquake – Kobe Waterfront Plaza – Hyogo Prefecture Museum of Art
Benesse House / Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum
Chichu Art Museum / Naoshima
Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Calder Museum
François Pinault Foundation of Contemporary Art

Each volume consists of four color offset print on 200g snow white Araveal paper, folded and bounded by hand with a cover in double ply of the same paper.

Text description volume:
W 4 3/4 x H 7 11/16 inches (W 120 x H 195mm)
29 architecture color photographs by Tadao Ando
4 black and white photographs by Roland Hagenberg
4 color offset printing on matte coated paper in double ply of 200kg snow white Araveal paper with Smythe sewing binding

Total of 11 volumes contained in a 3/16 inches thick silk-screened acrylic slipcase. Dimensions 4 13/16 x 8 1/8 x 5 1/8 inches (123 x 207 x 130mm) W x H x D

This edition is enclosed inside a protective carton box, each signed by Tadao Ando. Printed and manufactured in Japan

Edition of 500

ISBN: 1-887054-04-9 / 978-1-887054-04-1