Tag Kengo Kuma

08-08-2014

Kengo Kuma

Kengo Kuma was born in Kanagawa Prefecture.Kengo Kuma & Associates 2-24-8 BY- CUBE 2-4F Minamiaoyama Minato-ku Tokyo 107 - 0062 T +81 03 - 3401 7721 F +81 03 - 3401 7778

30-10-2009

Phaidon Atlas of 21st century world architecture

The Phaidon Atlas of 21st century world architecture covers more than 1000 of the most significant architectural projects since the start of the new millennium.

07-07-2009

Eska: cement that lights up. A project by Kengo Kuma

Eska is an optic fibre created with plastic fibre that lights up. Soft and easy to work with, the material has been interpreted by Kengo Kuma.

28-09-2007

Kengo Kuma. Plastic House. Tokyo, Japan. 2002

Kengo Kuma wants to emphasise how dialogue with the chaotic dimension of the contemporary city cannot be resolved with imitation by analogy or mechanical reproduction of the construction, but through use of an ordering principle that may be traced to outlying rural areas and to the historical architecture of the past.

28-09-2007

Kengo Kuma. Water/Glass House. Atami, Shizuoka Prefecture. 1995

Bruno Taut spent the years 1934 through 1936 in Japan, leaving behind the admirable "Hyuga" house in which the German architect attempted to recreate his feelings upon seeing the magnificent Katsura Imperial Villa.

Great (Bamboo) Wall House, Kengo Kuma.<br /> Beijing. 2002

05-05-2006

Great (Bamboo) Wall House, Kengo Kuma.
Beijing. 2002

Kengo Kuma's bamboo house in the countryside near Beijing is breathtaking. It manages to express the perfect synthesis between architecture and the land, between human intervention and the work of nature, with rare poetry.