Main entry:

Kuma, Kengo, 1954- author.

Title & Author:

Point line plane / Kengo Kuma.

Publication:

London ; New York : Thames & Hudson Ltd., 2024
©2024

Description:

210 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
A DISCOURSE ON METHOD The 20th Century: An Age of Volume -- Lines in Japanese Architecture and the Work of Mies van der Rohe -- From Kandinsky's Compositions to Gibson's Particles -- Gibson and Particles -- Intellectualism vs Dada -- From Time as Motion to Time as Material -- From Additive Design to Computational Design -- Bruno Latour and the Chronophotographic Gun -- Architecture and Time -- Liberating Time from Motion -- Kandinsky's Transcendence and Embedding of Dimensions -- New World Views and Effective Theories -- An Expanded, Multi-Layered World -- The Extra Large Architecture of Finance Capitalism -- The Expansion of Architecture and the New Physics -- From an Evolutionary Model to a Multi-Layered Model -- Superstring Theory and Musical Architecture -- Deleuze and the Relativity of Matter. -- POINT Big World, Little Pebbles -- From Greece to Rome -- The Seagram Building as an Aggregation of Points -- The Challenge of Points in the Design of Stone Plaza -- The Jump from Point to Volume -- The Blue Stone of Brunelleschi -- Brunelleschi's Innovations with Points -- Brunelleschi's Inductive Architecture -- Deductive and Inductive Architecture -- Plastic Tanks and Caddisflies -- Connecting Points with Liquid -- Metabolism and Points -- Stone Sliced Thinner than Wood -- Japanese and Chinese Roof Tiles -- Point Distribution and Ageing -- Triangles as Versatile Points -- TSUMIKI: An Expandable System Modelled on Pine Branches -- Checkerboard Patterns as Points -- Railway Gravel as Free Points -- Checkerboard Patterns and Frugality -- Dispersal and the Sahara Desert. -- LINE The Volumes of Le Corbusier and Mies -- Kenzo Tange's Unaligned Lines -- From Line to Volume: The Degradation of Japanese Architecture -- Starting Out in a Wooden Hut -- The Lines of Gaudi -- Pointillism -- The Lines of the Tropical Rainforest -- The Lines of Modernism and the Lines of Japanese Architecture -- Disputes over Tradition and the Robust Lines of the Jomon Period -- The Movable Lines of Japanese Wood-Frame Construction -- Core Pressing and Surface Pressing -- The Fine Lines of Hiroshige -- An Architectural Sudden Shower -- The Line-Drawing Method and the V&A Dundee -- Living Lines and Dead Lines -- Lines and the Theory of Touch -- Lines Wandering Between Life and Death -- The Lines of Ultrafine Carbon Fibres -- Silk-Like Lines of the Tomioka Warehouse -- PLANE Rietveld vs De Klerk -- Rietveld vs Miesha -- Discovering Bedouin Fabrics in the Sahara -- Semper vs Laugier -- A Fabric Tea Room in Frankfurt -- Frank Lloyd Wright's Desert Encampment -- Fabric House in Taiki -- Casa Umbrella: Sheltering People in Emergencies -- Fuller's Domes and the Democratization of Architecture -- Saving the World with Tensegrity -- Cells and Tensegrity -- Hojo-an, Eight Centuries On.

Summary:

"Ostensibly a collection of writing that sets out Kengo Kuma's theories of architecture, but also an antivolume, antimegastructure, and in some sense anticapitalist, left-field critique of where the architecture world finds itself today. Point Line Plane is architectural theory, but written as narrative, full of intriguing vignettes, such as the fact that in Ancient Rome windows were fitted with slices of marble because glass was so expensive. It's written in a very Japanese form: a series of mini essays that circle around a theme and is aimed at a highly literate audience. Seventy-two related essays across four sections set out Kuma's rejection of the architecture of volume and mass that categorized the twentieth century in favor of a more ad hoc architecture that can be easily disassembled and, by drawing on tried and tested practices of the past, touch the earth more lightly. 72 black-and-white illustrations." -- Amazon

ISBN:

050002796X (hardcover)
9780500027967 (hardcover)

Subject:

Architecture Japan History 21st century.
Architecture Japon Histoire 21e siècle.
ARCHITECTURE / General.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 319457
Call No.: 319457
Copy: 1
Status: Available