Exhibition
March 08- September 01, 2024
Kengo Kuma: Onomatopeia Architecture
Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany
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- “… a celebration of Kuma’s approach to sustainable architecture.”
- “Through descriptions, elevation drawings, sketches, and photographs, the architect’s signature texture seems to jump off the page.”
- “For the past 30 years, I have been driven to create architecture by the desire to recover materials, and to reconnect people and physical things. It turned out to be the most enjoyable experience imaginable. This is because the world itself is material.”
- “When people come to see my architecture, I ask them to touch the materials. I would like to ask anyone looking through this publication to touch the paper while doing so. It would make me extremely happy to know that people are experiencing the quality of this book, the level of which is a first for us.”
- “Kuma’s unique and sustainable approach to contemporary architecture is celebrated.”
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Kuma. Complete Works 1988–Today. Art Edition ‘Yusuhara Community Market, Japan’
Edition of 200Signed heliogravure in portfolio, 37.4 x 29 cm (14.7 x 11.4 in); hardcover volume in handmade wooden slipcase, printed on two paper varieties, 30.8 x 39 cm (12.1 x 15.4 in), 4,71 kg (10.36 lb), 460 pages2250Edition: English, French, GermanThis edition is sold out. However, occasionally, copies do become available again. Please register on our waiting list so we can inform you if this edition, or anything similar comes up.
From his Great (Bamboo) Wall house to the Japan National Stadium for the Tokyo Olympic Summer Games, originally planned for 2020, Japanese architect Kengo Kuma pioneered a truly sustainable approach to contemporary architecture, translating local craftsmanship and resources into a new tactile architecture. Discover the scope of his practice-defining oeuvre in this XXL monograph.
Art Edition (No. 1–200) with a heliogravure of a sketch of Yusuhara Community Market, Japan, signed by Kengo Kuma. The book and artwork come in a custom-built wooden slipcase designed by Kuma and produced by one of his partner workshops in Japan.
Art Edition (No. 1–200) with a heliogravure of a sketch of Yusuhara Community Market, Japan, signed by Kengo Kuma. The book and artwork come in a custom-built wooden slipcase designed by Kuma and produced by one of his partner workshops in Japan.
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XXL books are a minimum 39 cm (15.4 in.)
Kengo Kuma
2250The Complete Kengo Kuma
Erasing architecture: a definitive survey of the architect’s oeuvre with a signed heliographic print of a sketch
After Tadao Ando, Toyo Ito, and Fumihiko Maki, Kengo Kuma has breathed renewed vigor and lightness into Japanese architecture. Departing from the modernist skyscraper of the 20th century, Kuma traveled through his native Japan to develop a truly sustainable approach, translating local craftsmanship and resources into site-specific and timely buildings. Informed by tradition and with both feet firmly planted in the present, this “materialist” heralds a new tactile architecture marked by its engaging surfaces, innovative structures, and fluid forms, reconnecting people with the physicality of a house. Kuma’s objective, above all else, is “just to respect the culture and environment of the place where I am working.”
To this end, Kuma shaped the China Academy of Art’s Folk Art Museum partially from discarded roof tiles; created a Chapel out of birch and moss in Nagano; and worked with local craftsmen to sculpt the V&A Dundee into a twisted, layered reflection of the Scottish coastal cliffs. With an extraordinary sensitivity for space, light, and texture, Kuma reveals unexpected qualities in materials, finding the weightlessness of stone in Chokkura Plaza and the softness of aluminum in the thatched roof of the Yangcheng Lake Tourist Transportation Center.
More recently, the architect brought his philosophy to the Japan National Stadium built for the Olympic Games, originally planned for 2020. Kuma has said the stadium could be “the catalyst that will transform Tokyo back from a concrete city. I want it to set an example that will help alter the direction of Japanese architectural design.”
In this XXL-sized monograph with some 500 illustrations spanning photographs, sketches, and plans, Kuma guides us through his entire career to date, detailing milestone projects as well as ongoing works.
Art Edition (No. 1–200) with a heliogravure of a sketch of Yusuhara Community Market, Japan, signed by Kengo Kuma. The book and artwork come in a custom-built wooden slipcase designed by Kuma and produced by one of his partner workshops in Japan.
To this end, Kuma shaped the China Academy of Art’s Folk Art Museum partially from discarded roof tiles; created a Chapel out of birch and moss in Nagano; and worked with local craftsmen to sculpt the V&A Dundee into a twisted, layered reflection of the Scottish coastal cliffs. With an extraordinary sensitivity for space, light, and texture, Kuma reveals unexpected qualities in materials, finding the weightlessness of stone in Chokkura Plaza and the softness of aluminum in the thatched roof of the Yangcheng Lake Tourist Transportation Center.
More recently, the architect brought his philosophy to the Japan National Stadium built for the Olympic Games, originally planned for 2020. Kuma has said the stadium could be “the catalyst that will transform Tokyo back from a concrete city. I want it to set an example that will help alter the direction of Japanese architectural design.”
In this XXL-sized monograph with some 500 illustrations spanning photographs, sketches, and plans, Kuma guides us through his entire career to date, detailing milestone projects as well as ongoing works.
Art Edition (No. 1–200) with a heliogravure of a sketch of Yusuhara Community Market, Japan, signed by Kengo Kuma. The book and artwork come in a custom-built wooden slipcase designed by Kuma and produced by one of his partner workshops in Japan.
The artist
Kengo Kuma (born in Yokohama in 1954) attended the University of Tokyo and established Spatial Design Studio in 1979 after further studies at Columbia University, New York. In 1990, he founded Kengo Kuma & Associates. He is based in Tokyo and Paris, while he teaches at the Graduate School of Architecture at the University of Tokyo, where he also runs his own Laboratory, Kuma Lab.
The editor
Philip Jodidio studied art history and economics at Harvard and edited Connaissance des Arts for over 20 years. His TASCHEN books include the Architecture Now! series and monographs on numerous major architects, including Norman Foster, Tadao Ando, Renzo Piano, Jean Nouvel, and Zaha Hadid.
Kuma. Complete Works 1988–Today. Art Edition ‘Yusuhara Community Market, Japan’
Edition of 200Signed heliogravure in portfolio, 37.4 x 29 cm (14.7 x 11.4 in); hardcover volume in handmade wooden slipcase, printed on two paper varieties, 30.8 x 39 cm (12.1 x 15.4 in), 4,71 kg (10.36 lb), 460 pagesISBN 978-3-8365-7714-4
Edition: English, French, GermanDownload product images here
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