Ja 109 Kengo Kuma A Lab For Materials

Kengo Kuma claims that the encounter with new materials heralds the beginning of a new era. Architecture is made with and decisively determined by physical materials. Although concrete was the ideal material for the 20th century, the 21st is witnessing a marked departure from this staple of the modernist tradition. Kuma is driven by the desire to recover the material, to reconnect people and physical things, and to explore the wealth of new and different materials waiting to be discovered. This issue is divided into sections, each dealing with a specific material and its use in architecture: bamboo, wood, paper, earth, stone, fire (tile/glass/resin), metal, and membrane or fibre.

• Return to Materials, Kengo Kuma
• BACKSTORY.Some notes on Kengo Kuma’s project to re-enchant Contemporary Architecture through Material Research,Jeffrey Kipnis
• Particlized: The New Arts and Sciences of Particles,Mario Carpo
• Connecting Beings And Things. Reflections On Kengo Kuma’s Architecture,Richard Scoffier

Projects, bamboo

• Great (Bamboo) Wall
• Pacific Flora 2004 Main Gate
• Hamada Shoyu
• Garden Terrace Miyazaki
• Shizuku by Chef Naoko
• Ginzan Onsen Fujiya
• Bamboo / Fiber
• Nangchang-Nangchang
• Sensing Spaces

• Nakagawa-machi Bato Hiroshige Museum of Art
• Cidori
• GC Prostho Museum Research Center
• Starbucks Coffee at Dazaifutenmangu Omotesando
• Sunny Hills Japan
• Yure
• Yusuhara Wooden Bridge Museum
• Kyushu Geibunkan Museum (Annex 2)
• Asakusa Culture Tourist Information Center
• KOMOREBI / Château La Coste
• Nagaoka City Hall Aore
• Daiwa Ubiquitous Computing Research Building
• Camper Monte Napoleone
• Whitestone Gallery Taipei
• EPFL ArtLab
• Mont-Blanc Base Camp
• Japan House São Paulo
• Neowa Dome
• KODAMA (Arte Sella Pavilion)
• Coeda House
• Comico Art Museum Yufuin
• The Darling Exchange

• Takayanagi Community Center
• Paper Snake
• Paper Brick
• Paper Cocoon
• Seigaiha
• Archives Antoni Clavé

• Adobe Repository for Buddha Statue
• Mesh / Earth
• Mushizuka (Mound for Insects)
• Novartis Shanghai Campus Multifunction Building
• Museum of Indigenous Knowledge
• Portland Japanese Garden Cultural Village

• Stone Museum
• Lotus House
• Chokkura Plaza
• Stone Card Castle
• Jeju Ball
• V&A Dundee

• Waketokuyama
• Kure City Ondo Civic Center
• Casalgrande Ceramic Cloud
• Xinjin Zhi Museum
• China Academy of Art’s Folk Art Museum
• Shipyard 1862
• Tiffany Ginza
• FRAC Marseille
• Yakisugi Collection
• Oribe Tea House
• Water Branch House
• Tetchan
• Bubble Wrap
• Beijing Tea House
• Sogokagu Design Lab

• KXK
• Polygonium
• Green Cast
• Darius Milhaud Conservatory of Music
• Wuxi Vanke
• Le Nuage d’Aluminium
• Hongkou SOHO
• Beijing Qianmen
• Yangcheng Lake Tourist Transportation Center

• Fukuzaki Hanging Garden
• Tee Haus
• Floating Tea House
• Casa Umbrella
• Air Brick
• Memu Meadows
• Shang Xia Shanghai
• Komatsu Seiren Fabric Laboratory fa-bo
• New Shinagawa Station