TEHRAN – A book carrying Japanese architect Tadao Ando’s dialogues with his students has been published in Persian.

Originally published in 2012, “Tadao Ando: Conversations with Students” has been co-translated by Hesam Eshqi-Sanati and Morteza Nikfetrat. The Persian edition was published Fekr-e No Books.

The newest volume in the popular “Conversations” series features Japanese architect Tadao Ando. 

One of the most celebrated living architects, Ando is best known for crafting serenely austere structures that fuse Japanese building traditions with Western modernism. 

His minimalist masterworks-geometric forms clad in silky-smooth exposed concrete-are suffused with natural light and set in perfect harmony with the landscape. 

In these highlights from lectures delivered at the University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Architecture, Ando candidly describes his experiences as a largely self-taught practitioner, tracing his development from an early interest in the traditional building craft of his native Japan through his political awakening in the turbulent 1960s to his current stature as one of the world’s foremost architects. 

In addition to exploring his aesthetic influences and working process, Ando offers students a road map not only for maintaining professional integrity, but also for becoming effective agents of change in the world.

Tadao Ando is a Japanese self-taught architect. His body of work is known for the creative use of natural light and for structures that follow natural forms of the landscape, rather than disturbing the landscape by making it conform to the constructed space of a building. 

Ando’s buildings are often characterized by complex three-dimensional circulation paths. These paths interweave between interior and exterior spaces formed both inside large-scale geometric shapes and in the spaces between them.

Photo: Front cover of the Persian edition of “Tadao Ando: Conversations with Students”.

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