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Author(s): Botond Bognar
ISBN(s): 9781568987798, 156898779X
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 32.98 MB
Year: 2009
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 156898779X 
ISBN 13: 9781568987798
Author: Botond Bognar

In our 2005 monograph Kengo Kuma: Selected Works, celebrated architect Kengo Kuma boldly declared that his ultimate aim was to “erase architecture” so that his buildings became one with their surroundings. In recent years he has pursued this goal by focusing primarily on imaginative and unexpected use of materials, creating hypnotizing surfaces that evoke subtle visual sensations by highlighting their materiality. Only by pushing a material to the limits of its capabilities does Kuma believe their true nature can be revealed. Ingenious and yet deceptively simple, this realization represented a major turning point in his desire to give his architecture a presence beyond the merely eye-catching or sculptural.

Material Immaterial: The New Work of Kengo Kuma presents more than thirty of the architect’s recent works, including high-profile commissions such as the Suntory Museum in Tokyo and the Ondo Civic Center in Kure; the exquisite Lotus House in Zushi; large-scale urban developments like Sanlitun Village South in Beijing; as well as tea pavilions and installations that have exhibited in the United States, England, Italy, South Korea, China, Germany, and France, many of them never before published. The book also includes an extended essay on the evolution of the architects work, from the founding of Kengo Kuma and Associates in 1990 to the present. An accompanying exhibitthe first retrospective of the architect’s work, also titled Material Immaterialdisplayed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in late 2008 and will travel to locales around the world over the next two years.

Material Immaterial The New Work of Kengo Kuma 1st Table of contents:

  • Materiality and Immateriality in the Architecture of Kengo Kuma

    • By Botond Bognar
      • Architecture in the Post-Bubble Era
      • The Early Stages of Kuma’s Architecture
      • “Particlization” and the Blurring of Architecture
      • Minimalism and Materiality
      • Sensory Design and Japanese Traditions
      • Urban-Scale Projects and Public Space
      • In Lieu of a Conclusion

  • Buildings and Projects

    • By Balázs Bognár
    • (This section features detailed descriptions and illustrations of over thirty of Kuma’s recent works, categorized by material or approach. Examples of projects include, but are not limited to):
      • Challenging Material: Spatial Filters in Stone
        • Food and Agriculture Museum, Setagaya-ku Tokyo
        • Lotus House, East Japan
        • Chokkura Plaza and Shelter, Takanezawa, Tochigi Prefecture
        • Suntory Museum, Minato-ku, Tokyo
        • Shiseikan, Kyoto University of Art and Design, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto
      • New Materials: Innovative Building Envelopes and Interiors

      • The Wood Revolution: From Traditional Timber to New Composites
      • Redefining Landscape: Buildings as Environmental Interventions
      • Urban Interventions: Rethinking Public and Commercial Space

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