Kengo Kuma

Complete Works 1988-Today. 45th Ed.
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-3-7544-0462-1
Verlag: Taschen GmbH

Buch, Englisch, Französisch, Deutsch, 512 Seiten, Hardcover, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 217 mm, Gewicht: 1103 g

Reihe: 45th Edition

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, 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 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 .

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jodidio, Philip

Weitere Mitwirkende

Kuma, Kengo

Über Autor(innen)

Jodidio, Philip
Philip Jodidio studierte Kunstgeschichte und Wirtschaftswissenschaften in Harvard und war über zwei Jahrzehnte lang Chefredakteur der französischen Kunstzeitschrift Connaissance des Arts. Zu seinen Veröffentlichungen bei TASCHEN gehören die Reihe Homes for Our Time sowie Monografien über zahlreiche bedeutende Architekten, darunter Norman Foster, Tadao Ando, Renzo Piano, Jean Nouvel und Zaha Hadid.

Kuma, Kengo
Kengo Kuma (geboren 1954 in Yokohama) besuchte die Universität Tokio und gründete nach weiterführenden Studien an der New Yorker Columbia University 1979 das Spatial Design Studio. 1990 gründete er Kengo Kuma & Associates. In Tokio und Paris ansässig lehrt er an der Graduate School of Architecture der Universität Tokio, der auch sein "Kuma Lab" angegliedert ist.