Kengo Kuma: New Works

The coffee-table book *Kengo Kuma: New Works* is a richly illustrated monograph on one of the world’s leading architects. The Japanese architect and professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo is widely recognized as a prolific writer and philosopher and advocates for an architecture that forges new relationships between nature, technology, and humanity.

In this book, Kuma’s second monograph, forty projects are organized according to the building’s intended use, with a current focus on projects that address natural disasters and the pandemic, build on the importance of local communities, and meet our need to come together with others.

The projects vary in scale and ambition, ranging from the Olympic Stadium in Japan—where Kuma used wood from all regions of the country to build the nation’s largest arena—to a small community center in Yusuhara and a fairy-tale museum in Denmark. Each project is a tribute to Kuma’s skill in working with natural materials, pushing them to their limits to create exciting and surprising forms.

A comprehensive introduction by Grace La examines Kuma’s development since the previous book and explores the themes in his work and how they relate to the contemporary world of architecture. The projects included—stadiums and cultural centers, museums and residences, cafés and parks, temples and pavilions—were selected by Kuma himself as the best examples of this phase in his career. None of these projects appeared in the previous book.

Specifications
Title: Kengo Kuma: New Works
Author: Grace La
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Dimensions: 240 x 295 x 38 mm
Size: 352 pages
Language: English
Material: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780500028223

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