Current Work: Kengo Kuma
Friday, Mar 31, 20177 PM - 9 PMEDT
| Cooper Union - The Great Hall, in the Foundation Building, 7 East 7th Street
New York, NY, USRelated
Kengo Kuma strives to create buildings that are sensitive to context. For him, architecture is most successful when it upholds interrelationships inherent in the natural environment. Kuma employs natural materials in designs that merge the regional vernacular with a sublime minimalism often resulting in an effect of dematerialization. “Rather than pursuing one’s original style as an architect, you actually visit the place and follow what grows out of it,” in Kuma’s words.
Recent works include the China Academy of Art Museum in Xiangshan, China; the Besancon Art and Culture Center in Besancon, France; a headquarters for a French sportswear company located on Mont-Blanc designed with an exterior comprised of unskinned panels of oak; and “Jyubako” a mobile home trailer developed for a Japanese sportswear company intended to serve a nomadic user. At the 15th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, he designed Floating Kitchen, an installation comprised of staggered shelving and traditional Japanese kitchenware to celebrate Japanese culinary culture. Kuma was recently commissioned to design the National Olympic Stadium to serve the 2020 Summer Olympic games in Tokyo; a high-rise residential complex in the central business district of Moscow; the Saint-Denis Pleyel metro station in Paris; and the V&A Museum of Design, Dundee, Scotland.
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