描述
Kengo Kuma works 1994- 2022
This monograph is dedicated to the work of Kengo Kuma & associates from 1994 to the present.
It collects, in almost 300 pages, 26 projects, developed at the level of plans, photographs, texts and construction details and divided into the categories of Rural and Neo-rural.
With a prologue by Carlos Ferrater and an introduction by Javier Villar and Kengo Kuma himself, explaining the reason for this division, which will give rise to a second volume, soon, that will address the works in the Urban category, completing this compilation.
Kengo Kuma’s interest in the rural comes from the studio’s origins in the days before the economic crisis that devastated Japan in the 1990s, with commissions in remote rural areas and on a small scale outside the economic processes of the city. .
This rural world is not considered by Kengo Kuma as an uncomfortable place to implement urban structures alien to this reality, but the rural is at the starting point of his projects integrating architecture in delicate contexts, maintaining and recovering artisan practices and materials considered as obsolete by contemporary architecture.
This search and use of available techniques and materials and their applications in a modern key, in collaboration with artisans, becomes the modus operandi that will mark his project strategy in his urban and rural projects, both in Japan and internationally.
Neo-rural projects do not respond to new project attitudes but to the change in attitude resulting from current discussions where the rural is at the base of the idea of a sustainable future within a necessary evolution, as opportunities to seek new and better realities within of a new paradigm that seeks the future outside our cities.
Contents
From now on
Kengo Kuma
Kengo Kuma
Carlos Ferrater
Of the Rural and the Neo-rural
Javier Villar Ruiz
rural architecture
Kiro San Observatory. Yoshiumi, Imabari,
Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Hotel Ginzan Onsen Fujiya. Obanazawa, Yamagata, Japan
Yusuhara City Hall. Takaoka, Kochi Prefecture , Japan
Yusuhara Market. Yusihar-Cho, Takaoka-Gun, Kochi, Japan
Towada Community Center. Aomori, Japan
Yunoeki Oyu Community Center. Kazuno, Akita, Japan
Yusuhara Community Library and Welfare Center. Yusuhara-Cho, Kochi, Japan
Minamisanriku Sun Sun Shopping Village. Miyagi, Japan
Minamisanriku Hamare Market. Miyagi, Japan
Takao Station. Tokyo, Japan
Yugawara Station Plaza. Ashigarashimo-Gun, Kanagawa, Japan
Tomioka City Hall. Gunma, Japan
Taketa Museum of History and Culture. Taketa,Oita, Japan
Snowpeak Landstation Hakuba Recreation Center. Nagano, Japan
Kusugibashi Bridge. Yamaguchi, Japan
Neo-Rural Architecture
Research Center of the Gc Prostho Museum. Aichi Prefecture, Japan
Folk Art Museum. China Academy of Art Hangzhou, China
Mont-Blanc Base Camp. Les Houches, France
Museum of Comic Art dn Yufuin. Oita, Japan
Wabi House Coop. Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico
We Hotel Toya. Hokkaido, Japan
Memu Experimental House. Hokkaido, Japan
Morinos Academy. Gifu, Japan
Sogokagu Design Laboratory. Iga, Mie Prefecture, Japan
Komatsu Seiren Fabric Labo. Ishikawa, Japan
The Work of Kengo Kuma: The Past Future
Ricardo Merí de la Maza
