{"id":2334,"date":"2025-12-25T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/?p=2334"},"modified":"2025-12-25T15:25:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T15:25:47","slug":"tracing-five-decades-of-thought-and-form-tadao-ando-sketches-drawings-and-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/25\/tracing-five-decades-of-thought-and-form-tadao-ando-sketches-drawings-and-architecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracing Five Decades of Thought and Form: \u201cTadao Ando. Sketches, Drawings, and Architecture\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/1035508\/tracing-five-decades-of-thought-and-form-tadao-ando-sketches-drawings-and-architecture\/6901ec4af582e2018911bd16-tracing-five-decades-of-thought-and-form-tadao-ando-sketches-drawings-and-architecture-photo\" rel=\"attachment\" title=\"featured_image\"><br \/>\n    <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Shanghai poly grand theatre by Tadao Ando. Image \u00a9 nj.ap via Shutterstock\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"Shanghai poly grand theatre by Tadao Ando. Image \u00a9 nj.ap via Shutterstock\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tracing-five-decades-of-thought-and-form-tadao-ando-sketches-drawings-and-architecture_12.jpg\"><br \/>\n  <\/a><br \/>\n  <small>Shanghai poly grand theatre by Tadao Ando. Image \u00a9 nj.ap via Shutterstock<\/small><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/tag\/taschen\">Taschen<\/a>&#8216;s new book, published in October 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taschen.com\/en\/books\/architecture-design\/08025\/tadao-ando-sketches-drawings-and-architecture\/?utm_medium=website&amp;utm_source=archdaily.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Tadao Ando. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/tag\/sketches\">Sketches<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/tag\/drawings\">Drawings<\/a>, and Architecture<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em>presents an in-depth exploration of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/country\/japan\/page\/1\">Japanese<\/a> architect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/tag\/tadao-ando\/page\/1\">Tadao Ando<\/a>&#8216;s creative process, bringing together over 750 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/tag\/sketches\">sketches<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/tag\/drawings\">drawings<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/tag\/models\">models<\/a>, and technical plans developed over nearly five decades. Created in close collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/tag\/tadao-ando\/page\/1\">Ando<\/a> himself, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/tag\/book\">book<\/a> provides a rare view into how his ideas take shape, from the immediacy of the first pencil lines to the precision of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/tag\/architectural-drawings\">architectural drawings<\/a> that define his built works. Through these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/tag\/materials\">materials<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/tag\/publication\">publication<\/a> highlights <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/tag\/tadao-ando\/page\/1\">Ando<\/a>&#8216;s enduring focus on the relationship between hand, thought, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/tag\/space\">space<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/1035508\/tracing-five-decades-of-thought-and-form-tadao-ando-sketches-drawings-and-architecture\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shanghai poly grand theatre by Tadao Ando. Image \u00a9 nj.ap via Shutterstock Taschen&#8216;s new book, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2334"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2337,"href":"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334\/revisions\/2337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}