Table of Contents

Preface • Introduction by Kenneth Frampton • 1. WATER-GLASS: Water/Glass • River/Filter, Kitakami Canal Museum • Forest/Floor • Z58 • Glass/Wood • 2. WOOD-GRASS-BAMBOO: Noh Stage in the Forest • Great Bamboo Wall • Nakagawa-machi Bato Hiroshige Museum • Takayanagi Community Centre • Ginzan Onsen Bath House • Ginzan Onsen Fujiya Ryokan • Yusuhara Town Hall • Masanari Murai Memorial Museum of Art • GC Prostho Museum • Yusuhara Marche • Yusuhara Wooden Bridge Museum • Komatsu Seiren Fabric Laboratory fa-bo • Under One Roof project for the EPFL ArtLab • Japan House São Paulo • 3. STONE-EARTH-CERAMIC: Lotus House • Chokkura Plaza • Adobe museum for a Wooden Buddha Museum of Wisdom • Paper Snake • Ondo Civic Centre • Nezu Museum • Casalgrande Ceramic Cloud • China Academy of Art’s Folk Art Museum • V&A Dundee

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The major monograph on Kengo Kuma, revised and expanded to include five new projects

About the Author

Professor Kenneth Frampton is a distinguished architectural historian and the author of many books, including Renzo Piano: The Complete Logbook and Le Corbusier, both published by Thames & Hudson. He is Ware Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University. Kengo Kuma established Kengo Kuma & Associates in 1990 and went on to become Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, University of Tokyo in 2009. He is the author of several books, including Anti-Object and Kyokai: A Japanese Technique for Articulating Space. His work has been featured in numerous publications, including XS Extreme (Thames & Hudson).

Reviews

Each building is presented through descriptive text, newly commissioned photographs, and detailed drawings that reveal the refined architectonic vocabulary that characterizes Kuma's buildings.-- "North Carolina Modernist Houses"