Main entry:

Kuma, Kengo, 1954- author.

Title & Author:

Small architecture ; [and] Natural architecture / Kenguo Kuma ; translated by Alfred Birnbaum ; with an introduction by Thomas Daniell.

Publication:

London : Architectural Association, [2015]
©2015

Description:

2 volumes : illustrations ; 17 cm

Notes:
"This two-volume set of essays by the Japanese architect Kengo Kuma offers an overview of his key built works and gives insight into his ideas about architecture. Until now available only in Japanese, this edition comprises a lucid theoretical manifesto for humble, sustainable architecture that is sensitive to materials and to place. Written in the wake of the 2011 tsunami which devastated parts of northern Japan, the essays take on a particular poignancy. Each book features original drawings produced by Kengo Kuma especially for this English-language release."--Amazon website.
Translated from the Japanese.
Title from wrapper.
[Vol. 1] Small architecture : Introduction : Acting natural / Thomas Daniell -- Prologue : Tragic architectural history -- Stacking -- Leaning -- Weaving -- Inflating -- Coda -- Selected projects (2005-2013) --
[Vol. 2] Natural architecture : As water flows -- A museum in stone: healing the cuts -- Chokkura Plaza: merging with the land -- Hiroshige Museum: Wright, ukiyo-e, multi-layering and humility -- A great, green adventure -- Kirosan Observatory: between natural and devised -- The thin wall -- Epilogue : Is natural architecture sustainable? -- Selected projects (1994-2008)

Summary:

These books contain two extended essays by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, which together provide an overview of his key built works and a summation of his ideas about architecture developed over the course of his career to date.

ISBN:

9781907896514 (pbk.)
1907896511 (pbk.)
9781907896743
1907896740
9781907896750
1907896759

Subject:

Kuma, Kengo, 1954-
Architects Japan.
Architecture Japan History 21st century.
Sustainable architecture.
Architectes Japon.
Architecture Japon Histoire 21e siècle.
Architecture durable.
Architecture and Planning.
Architects.
Architecture.
Japan.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Birnbaum, Alfred, translator.
Daniell, Thomas, 1967- writer of introduction.
Kuma, Kengo, 1954- Natural architecture.
Birnbaum, Alfred translator.
Architectural Association (Great Britain), issuing body.

Holdings:

Location: Library main y 290840
Call No.: BIB 234049
Status: Available