Publisher's Synopsis
This book discusses architecture in the form of theme setting: the house of architectural origin, the house of group living, the square of gathering people, the city, the resonance of cooperation in the dialogue of different fields, the creation of architecture unique to a specific place, the place of nurturing people, the reconstruction of oneself, the world of gardens, and the idea of thinking while doing. Ando begins with the definition of the theme, then brings out the concepts and practices he wants to express in the world's architectural masterpieces he has personally visited, and concludes by presenting his own actual works and the inner vision of architecture he wants to express through these works.
