Kengo Kuma - Softcover
Since the age of ten, when he first saw the monumental concrete gymnasium designed by Kenzo Tange for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, Kengo Kuma (b. 1954) has aspired to create architecture that utilizes materials in an expressive manner. Despite his early fascination with concrete, Kuma has become better known for his unusual handling of glass, wood, and stone in works as diverse as private residences, Buddhist temples, and art museums. With an acute sensitivity to maximizing a building's setting, whether urban or rural, Kuma has created such celebrated structures as the Tokyo headquarters of Louis Vuitton, adobe housing for an ancient wooden Buddha, and an observatory that is sunk into a seaside hill like Michael Heizer's DOUBLE NEGATIVE.
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Luigi Alini is a researcher in the Technology of Architecture at the Syracuse Faculty of Architecture, University of Catania. He devotes his attention to strategies of execution in architecture, with particular reference to the connections between technique, technology, and design. He is the author of the volume Le strategie esecutive. L'integrazione delle competenze nel progette di architettura.
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- PublisherPhaidon Press
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 1904313612
- ISBN 13 9781904313618
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages252
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Kengo Kuma, works and projects
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Study of the major projects of the Japanese architect illustrated with colour photographs, plans and diagrams. Includes essay by Kuma, a resume and bibliography. Light toning to covers. No marks, inscriptions or fading to inside pages. No reading crease to spine. Binding is firm. 247 pages. s133. Seller Inventory # EDB05055
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Book is in very good condition. 247pp with colour photographs and b/w illustrations. Seller Inventory # 007630
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Kengo Kuma: Works and Projects [Signed]
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: Fine. First English language edition. Quarto (11" x 8-1/2"). 247,(5)pp. Photo illustrated wrappers, dark blue spine strip with white lettering. Illustrated throughout with color photographs, ground plans and elevations. A fine copy, signed on the front free endpaper by Kengo Kuma. Contents: The Warp and Weft of Architecture Weaving, Joining, Overlapping, Folding / Luigi Alini -- A Return to Materials / Kengo Kuma -- Works and projects -- Kiro-san Observatory, Yoshiumi, Ochi, Ehime Prefecture 1991-94 -- Water/Glass, Atami, Shizuoka Prefecture 1992-95 -- Noh Stage in the Forest, Toyoma, Tome, Miyagi Prefecture 1995-96 -- Project for the Memorial Park, Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture 1997-98 -- Kitakami Canal Museum, Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture 1996-99 -- Bato-machi Hiroshige Museum, Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture 1998-2000 -- Takayanagi Community Center, Takayanagi, Kariwa-gun, Niigata Prefecture 1998-2000 -- Nasu History Museum, Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture 1999-2000 -- Stone Museum, Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture 1996-2000 -- Ginzan Bath House, Obanazawa, Yamagata Prefecture 2000-01 -- Great (Bamboo) Wall, Beijing 2000-02 -- Plastic House, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 2000-02 -- Adobe Museum for Wooden Buddha, Toyoura, Yamaguchi Prefecture 2001-02 -- Forest/Floor, Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture 2001-03 -- Soba Restaurant at Togakushi, Togakushi, Nagano Prefecture 2002-03 -- Baiso Buddhist Temple, Minato-ku, Tokyo 2000-03 -- One Omotesando, Minato-ku, Tokyo 2001-03 -- Shinonome Apartment Building, Koto-ku, Tokyo 1999-2004 -- The "Food and Agriculture" Museum, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 2002-04 -- Murai Masanari Art Museum, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 2001-04 -- Anthology of writings -- Particle on Horizontal Plane -- Dissolution of the Object and Flight from the City -- The Relativity of Materials -- Digital Gardening -- To See and Be Seen -- Collaborators. Seller Inventory # 50327
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