Tadao Ando The Process of Creation: Emaki-style Sketchbooks

The catalogue consists of ten architecture project drawings each bound separately in the emaki-style (a handscroll folded like an accordion album), as well as a separate volume for descriptions of each project, photographs, and an essay by Tadao Ando. All eleven volumes are neatly contained in a silk-screened, acrylic slipcase. The catalogue of ten architecture project drawings: Each of the included projects: 7 11/16 inches (195 mm) high by 4 3/4 inches (120 mm) wide with a corresponding length when extended as follows: Church of the Light, 85 1/32 inches (2160 mm) Rokko Housing I, II, III, 7 7/8 inches (1800 mm) Chikatsu-Asuka Historical Museum, Osaka, 80 5/16 inches (2040 mm) Hanshin Awaji Earthquake - Kobe Waterfront Plaza - Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, 89 3/4 inches (2280 mm) Benesse House / Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, 66 1/8 inches (1680 mm) Chichu Art Museum / Naoshima, 75 19/32 inches (1920 mm) Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, 108 21/32 inches (2760 mm) Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 66 1/8 inches (1680 mm) Calder Museum, 99 7/32 inches (2520 mm) François Pinault Foundation of Contemporary Art, 94 1/2 inches (2400 mm) Each volume in four color offset printing on 200 kg snow white Araveal paper, folded and bound by hand with a cover in double ply of the same paper Text description volume: 7 11/16 inches (195 mm) high by 4 3/4 inches (120 mm) wide 29 architectural color photographs provided by Tadao Ando 4 black and white photographs by Roland Hagenberg Four color offset printing on matte coated paper in double ply of 200 kg snow white Araveal paper with Smythe sewing binding Total of eleven volumes contained in a 3/16 inch thick, silk-screened, acrylic slipcase Total dimensions with slipcase: 8 1/8 inches (207 mm) high by 4 13/16 inches (123 mm) wide by 5 1/8 inches (130 mm) deep This special limited edition is enclosed inside a protective carton box. Each edition signed by Tadao Ando. Printed and manufactured in Japan--Publisher description.