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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 720 EAN: 9780714839998 ISBN: 071483999X Label: Phaidon Press Ltd Manufacturer: Phaidon Press Ltd Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 284 Publication Date: 2000-10 Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd Studio: Phaidon Press Ltd Related Items:
Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk 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 Average Rating:
 Rating: - Ando and Pare - What rice is to sushi!!If you have a slither of appreciation for the finer things on this planet, you definately should not pass up the opportunity to own this title. A book that left me speechless and I mean that!! - 10 Stars - Rating: - The Nature of the UnnaturalThe sublime architecture of Ando, delivered on a haunting polychromatic plate by R. Pare. The photos discover many of the wonderful uses of space and form Ando masters and manipulates to tame light into a force that is nearly unrivaled by any other modern architect. Certainly it makes the oft ludicrous shapes of several (ahem) "Experienced" LA-types appear clumsy and banal (Basque'ing in their own glory perhaps?). Most wonderful is the way in which he can make one look at the 'ordinary' materials used (exposed concrete, etc.), and focus on the forms themselves; or better, to enjoy the materials in their place. Why a '9' rather than a perfect score? Though less artistic, I would have enjoyed a few more full-shots along with the other photos to better put each structure into a perspective understandable by those of us unable to visit the sites in person.  Try searching the Internet for "Tadao Ando: The Colours of Light" or Ebay for "Tadao Ando: The Colours of Light". You might also be interested in the following great products:
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