Kengo Kuma
Topography
Kengo Kuma and Associates author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Images Publishing Group Pty Ltd
Published:18th Feb '21
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"...exquisite coffee-table book presents breathtaking buildings by superstar Japanese architect Kengo Kuma" - Daily Mail
Kengo Kuma is a globally acclaimed Japanese architect whose prodigious output possesses an inherent respect and value of materials and environment, often creating a harmonious balance between building and landscape. He masterfully engages both architectural experimentation and traditional Japanese design with twenty-first-century technology, resulting in highly advanced yet beautifully simple, gentle, human-scaled buildings. He’s renowned for the drive to search for new materials to replace concrete and steel, seeking a new approach for architecture in a post-industrial society, and fusing interior and exterior realms to make spaces that both create a calming and tranquil atmosphere and which “transform” topography. In the pages of this exquisitely illustrated volume, Kuma presents close to forty of his most recognised and award-winning works, including FRAC Marseille, V&A Dundee, Mont-Blanc Base Camp, and Japan National Stadium. Kuma continues to forge a new design language: in this book he offers the reader deep insight into how he has engaged with different aspects of the architectural discipline by transforming topography, construction, and representation in order to give further progress to his ideas.
"From a thatched hotel to a Starbucks made of STICKS, exquisite coffee-table book presents breath taking buildings by superstar Japanese architect Kengo Kuma." - Ted Thornhill, Daily Mail
"Kuma is best known for his luminous architecture that is often rooted in native materials and celebrates harmony with nature." - Kathryn Romeyn, Architectural Digest
"Kengo Kuma describes his creative approach, allowing you to contextualize his stadium within the wide spectrum of the Japanese architect’s brilliant work." - Architizer
ISBN: 9781864708455
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 1930g
298 pages