'Exquisitely photographed by Richard Pare, the details of Mr Ando's houses, office buildings, meditation spaces and churches haunt the retina.' (The New York Times)

'An outstanding presentation of arguably the most significant body of work of the last 20 years.' (Architects' Journal)

'This beguiling and vivacious book allows you to tune into Ando's work right away. In this book, every page raises your level of consciousness and I cannot say how much pleasure it gave.' (Architectural Review)

'This book is a superb example of a monograph that is more than simply a catalog of buildings. Richard Pare's photographs beautifully capture the abstraction, the sublime simplicity, the materiality, and the quality of time (lines) in Ando's work. The jury found this book simply irrestible.' (Jury of the American Institute of Architects)

Richard Pare is Consulting Curator of Photography for the Canadian Center for Architecture and has exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art and the Max Protetch Gallery in New York.

Tom Heneghan was educated at the Architectural Association in London, where he taught from 1979. In 1990, he was invited by Arata Isozaki to participate in the 'Kumamoto Art Polis' programme in Japan. He is Professor at Kogakuin University in Tokyo.