“In architecture, the framework is determined in the first sketches. The instant movement of a hand decides everything. When casting my ideas into shape, I don’ t know whether splinters of my memories of buildings and spaces I walked through in the past are revived in the lines I have drawn.

However, what I can say is that the lines I draw must have a meaning, as they are based on my own physical experiences of spaces.
Some of the overlapping lines in my sketches aren’t merely abstract drawings.

They reflect ideas of actual spaces, along with the intention of their continued existence.” -----Tadao Ando

A portfolio collecting the works of Tadao Ando, one of the world’s leading contemporary architects, is published in two volumes.

“The 1st Round” contains platinum prints of a selection of drawings and comes in a special box designed by Ando himself.