Tadao Ando is Japan's lea­ding ar­chi­tect and a de­si­gner with a dazz­ling in­ter­na­tio­nal re­pu­ta­tion. This com­plete ca­ta­lo­gue of Ando's work ex­ami­nes in de­tail over one hund­red buil­dings and projects, il­lus­tra­ted by drawings, sket­ches, plans and other ma­te­rial from the architect's own stu­dio.
Francesco Dal Co in­tro­du­ces this ex­haus­tive sur­vey, which ran­ges from the smal­lest of Ando's pri­vate hou­ses from the 1970s to such major com­mis­si­ons as the Church on the Water, Hok­kaido (1988), the Ja­pa­nese Pa­vi­lion for Expo 92 in Se­ville and the Nao­s­hima Con­tem­porary Art Mu­seum (1992). An in­ter­view with Ando con­duc­ted by Hi­ro­shi Ma­ru­yama ac­com­pa­nies es­says on Ando's ar­chi­tec­ture by a range of re­spec­ted in­ter­na­tio­nal cri­tics in­clu­ding Peter Ei­sen­man, Ken­neth Framp­ton, Tom Heneghan and François Chas­lin, to­ge­ther with selec­ted wri­tings by Ando him­s­elf.