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The Chteau La Coste in Le Puy-Sainte-Rparade, near Aix-en-Provence, is a working vineyard, and, since 2004, a destination for a world-class collection of modern and contemporary art and architecture. For the past decade, the vineyard has been inviting artists and architects from around the world -- including Tadao Ando, Louise Bourgeois, Liam Gillick, Jean Nouvel and Richard Serra, among others -- to visit Chteau La Coste and select a location on the estate for a site-specific installation.Tadao Ando: Chteau La Coste explores the five works by the Japanese architect (born 1941) featured at the Chteau: Gate, Art Centre, Four Cubes to Contemplate Our Environment, Chapel and Origami Benches (all completed in 2011) . Beautifully illustrated with sketches, models and production photography, this volume also includes an essay by architecture historian Philip Jodidio analyzing how Ando's architecture inscribes itself into the landscape.
About the Author
Philip Jodidio, born in New Jersey in 1954 graduated from Harvard where he studied the history of art and economics. He was the Editor in Chief of the widest circulation French art magazine Connaissance des Arts from 1980 to 2002. He is the author of more than 130 books, mainly about contemporary architecture. He has published monographs on Richard Meier, Norman Foster, Santiago Calatrava, Alvaro Siza, Zaha Hadid, Renzo Piano, Tadao Ando, Jean Nouvel and Shigeru Ban. He has also worked with the Aga Khan Trust for Culture on books concerning the Muslim world.
