Kengo Kuma is considered one of the most renowned contemporary architects, whose projects—such as the V&A Dundee design museum, the Tiffany store in Tokyo’s Ginza district, the National Stadium in Tokyo, and other buildings around the world—have attracted widespread attention.
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Erieta Attali, Wood/Pile, Kruen, Germany
Kengo Kuma, Wood/Pile, 2018
Erieta Attali, V&A Dundee, Dundee, Schottland, Vereinigtes Königreich
Kengo Kuma, V&A Dundee, 2018
The natural connection to context, landscape, and history; the choice of materials—glass, stone, or wood; the interplay of lines and that special light; and the transparency captured by the camera of Erieta Attali, an architecture and landscape photographer based in New York and Paris—all make Kengo Kuma’s work so unique.
Less well known are the architect’s hand drawings, which are now on view in the exhibition. While Kuma conceives of architecture in his drawings as a fluid process, as an interweaving of material and relationship to the surroundings, Attali directs her photographic gaze toward those quiet moments in which built structure, nature, and light merge. The juxtaposition of drawing and photography creates a space of tension between design and experience, imagination and reality.
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