The Residential Masterpieces series is a collection of architectural monographs published by A.D.A. Edita Tokyo (Global Architecture) that showcases and explores iconic modern and contemporary houses from around the world. The 31st release is focused on three houses designed by Tadao Ando.
The three works selected for this volume on Tadao Ando are not recent in chronological terms. However, the quality of being novel is one of the least appropriate ways to approach the Japanese architect's work, which is wholly disassociated from this. The three houses – Row House in Sumiyoshi (Azuma House, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture 1975–1976), Koshino House (Ashiya City, Hyogo Prefecture 1979-1981, 1983-1984, 2004-2006), and Kidosaki House (Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 1982–1986) – can be described as symbolic junctures in Ando's exploration of residential design, with clear differences in their respective scales, plans and contexts, but with an identical radical approach through which the building's form reacts to these conditions and transforms them into its intrinsic qualities. Includes an extensive text and magnificent photographs by Yukio Futagawa.
