Material Immaterial: The New Work of Kengo Kuma - Softcover

Botond Bognar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 156898779X ISBN 13: 9781568987798

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press, 2009

Synopsis

Material Immaterial 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 pres...

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Botond Bognar is the author of numerous books on contemporary Japanese architecture, including Kengo Kuma: Selected Works. He is currently a professor of architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 156898779X
• ISBN 13: 9781568987798
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224