Posts tagged "kengo kuma"
Kengo Kuma Exhibition

Kengo Kuma Exhibition

Kengo Kuma Exhibition -Whispering substance dialogue with things- “Kuma no mono”   “The end of architectural desire”, “Losing architecture”, “Natural architecture”, “Anti-object”. By simply tracing the his book title, you can see that the thing that Kengo Kuma aims for consistently. In Kuma’s word it means “I wanted to criticize self-centered and intimidating architecture”. Kuma...
Wabisabi and Modernism ~Wabisabi by Leonard Koren~

Wabisabi and Modernism ~Wabisabi by Leonard Koren~

”Japan was ahead of modernism hundreds of years than the West, in the middle of the Muromachi era(1336 – 1573), it already valued ​​the beauty of simplicity ” (Jun Hara, “White” 2008) The similarity of Japan’s values ​​and modernism which both respects simplicity, is a great concern for Japan who imported modernism. Concerning the eyes...