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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 presence beyond the merely eye-catching or sculptural.
Material Immaterial: The New Work of Kengo Kuma presents more than thirty of the architect's recent works, including high-profile commissions such as the Suntory Museum in Tokyo and the Ondo Civic Center in Kure; the exquisite Lotus House in Zushi; large-scale urban developments like Sanlitun Village South in Beijing; as well as tea pavilions and installations that have exhibited in the United States, England, Italy, South Korea, China, Germany, and France, many of them never before published. The book also includes an extended essay on the evolution of the architects work, from the founding of Kengo Kuma and Associates in 1990 to the present. An accompanying exhibit—the first retrospective of the architect's work, also titled Material Immaterial—displayed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in late 2008 and will travel to locales around the world over the next two years.
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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.
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Material Immaterial: The New Work of Kengo Kuma
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Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 2009
ISBN 10: 1568988745
ISBN 13: 9781568988740
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Hardcover. Matte color-illustrated boards with the title printed in black and in gray down a white spine. The free and pasted end pages are a darker gray. Pages: (6), 7-255, (1). Profusely illustrated with color images. "'Material Immaterial: The New Work of Kengo Kuma' presents more than thirty of the architect's recent works, including high-profile commissions such as the Suntory Museum in Tokyo and the Ondo Civic Center in Kure; the exquisite Lotus House in Zushi; large-scale urban developments like Sanlitun Village South in Beijing; as well as tea pavilions and installations that have exhibited in the United States, England, Italy, South Korea, China, Germany, and France, many of them never before published. The book also includes an extended essay on the evolution of the architect's work, from the founding of Kengo Kuma and Associates in 1990 to the present. An accompanying exhibit - the first retrospective of the architect's work, also titled Material Immaterial - displayed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in late 2008 and will travel to locales around the world over the next two years." Contents are as follows: Introduction / Kengo Kuma -- Materiality and immateriality in the architecture of Kengo Kuma / Botond Bognar : Architecture in the post-bubble era ; The early stages of Kuma's architecture ; "Particlization" and the blurring of architecture ; Minimalism and materiality ; Sensory design and Japanese traditions ; Urban-scale projects and public space ; In lieu of a conclusion -- Buildings and projects / Balázs Bognár : Old and new: redefining traditions : Waketokuyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo ; Cocon Karasuma, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto ; Ginzen Onsen Fujiya, Obanazawa, Yamagata Prefecture ; Sake No Hana, London ; Yien East/Archipelago, West Japan ; Cha Cha Moon, London -- Elements of organic architecture: building in wood : Yusuhara Town Hall, Yusuhara, Kochi Prefecture ; Y-Hutte, Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture ; Hoshinosato Annex, Kudamatsu, Yamaguchi Prefecture ; Ondo-cho CIvic Center, Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture ; JR Hoshakuji Station, Takanezawa, Tochigi Prefecture.; Challenging material: spatial filters in stone : Food and Agriculture Museum, Setagaya-ku Tokyo ; Lotus House, East Japan ; Chokkura Plaza and Shelter, Takanezawa, Tochigi Prefecture ; Suntory Museum, Minato-ku, Tokyo ; Shiseikan, Kyoto University of Art and Design, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto -- New materials: innovative building envelopes : LVMH, Chuo-ku, Osaka ; Fukuzaki Hanging Gardens, Minato-ku, Osaka ; Z58 Zhongtai Box, Shanghai, China ; Tiffany Ginza, Chou-ku, Tokyo ; Opposite House Hotel, Beijing, China -- Small spaces: unique structures : Paper Snake, Anyang, South Korea ; Oribe Teahouse, Tajimi, Gifu Prefecture ; KxK Pavilion, Hara Museum, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo ; Modern Teehaus, Frankfurt, Germany ; Fuan Teahouse, Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture ; Casa Umbrella, Milan, Italy ; Cidori, Milan, Italy -- Urban-scale projects: shaping public places : Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum, Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture ; Tobata C Block, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture ; Asahi Broadcasting Corporation Headquarters, Fukushima-ku, Osaka ; Sanlitun Village South, Beijing, China ; Sanlitun SOHO, China. VG+: Exlibrary book in excellent condition. Stamp on the top text block. Stamp on the front free end page. Stamp, sticker, and due date card on the back pasted end page. Sticker at the base of the spine. Seller Inventory # 202750