Customer Reviews

Ando: Complete Works (Jumbo) (German Edition)

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A great look at awe inspiring architecture. This book is loaded with large sized color and b&w photographs, plans, building sections, and sketches. A brief, shall I say minimalist, description of each presented building is provided. Also, an informative opening essay covers Ando's evolving career and design philosophy.

The only caveat: this book covers the 'complete work' only through the device of a thumbnail appendix containing very small b&w photos of all of Ando's work. The wonderful "Church on the Water" is an unfortunate victim of this ultra-minimal, as well as deceptive, approach. It will therefore be necessary to look elsewhere for those buildings that have not received truly complete coverage. However, the works included here are well presented and well worth contemplation and study.

Content wise, it is very similar to Ando (Taschen Basic Architecture series) - a smaller format paperback. In fact, the two books share many photos. This book adds lots of hand drawings and CAD illustrations to complement the photos and to help readers understand the perspective. But don't take me wrong, this is not a textbook, this is a well-designed coffee-table book that you can enjoy reading page after page. This book is a real bargain.

Very good designed book...informative...plenty of drawings but they used yellowish color, so drawings are hard to read...but it worths every penny that you spent...
Yagmur Toprakli/Ankara

Super value for the price. Good photos and drawings and several projects which are not well documented in other works.