2012年，菲利普·塞克莱尔（Philippe Séclier）参观了安藤忠雄的成名代表作：光之教堂，从此迷上了这位建筑师的建筑，并到世界各地研究他的建筑。本书是一个9年项目的结果，该项目拍摄了130座安藤忠雄的建筑。塞克利尔在每个建筑周围行走，试图找到合适的框架，理解安藤的选址和构图天赋。本书按时间顺序整理，每座建筑都有许多黑白照片，像马赛克一样排列在页面上，这些零散的照片很符合安藤的建筑中的几何哲学。这本“地图集”分地理位置和主题展示安藤的作品，有东京和神户的车站、沃斯堡现代艺术博物馆、法国拉科斯堡艺术中心、墨西哥海岸的艺术家度假区、英国曼彻斯特现已拆除的皮卡迪利花园、意大利米兰的剧院、纽约市的高档餐厅。塞克莱尔拍摄的照片，唤起了安藤众多宗教建筑精神的深度和永恒，短文简洁介绍了每座建筑，还附有安藤的作品列表和地理位置。

In 2012, Philippe Séclier visited Tadao Ando’s iconic Church of the Light, and was immediately compelled to journey around the world to further study the architect’s buildings. This unique presentation of Ando’s work is the result of what turned into a nine-

year project to photograph 130 buildings. Walking around each structure, trying to find the proper framing, helped Séclier understand Ando’s genius for siting and composition. Loosely organized by chronology, each building is represented in numerous black and white images, arranged like a mosaic on the page. These fragmented views correspond to Ando’s own philosophy of the logic of structure and geometry. This “atlas” embraces not only the geographic but also thematic range of Ando’s oeuvre—

from transit stations in Tokyo and Kobe to art museums in Fort Worth, Texas and Provence, France; from an artists’ retreat on the Mexican coast to the now-demolished Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester, England; from a theater in Milan, Italy, to an upscale restaurant in New York City. Séclier’s photographs of Ando’s numerous religious structures brilliantly illustrate his use of light and shadow to evoke spiritual depth and timelessness while his short texts offer concise observations of each building. A helpful appendix pinpoints the geographic diversity and range of Ando’s oeuvre.