Kengo Kuma
Japan

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Kengo Kuma
Kengo Kuma and Associates

Japan

www.kkaa.co.jp

Biography

The architect Kengo Kuma, born in 1954 in Kanagawa, studied in Tokyo and New York, and founded his own company in 1990. In his buildings, he is committed both to Nature and Asian traditions: “The essence of my work is the use of natural materials to create airy, open rooms filled with sunlight.” With highly thought-provoking, original designs, the philosophical and aesthetic consequence of which astound, Kengo Kuma is an established member of Japan’s architectural elite.

Articles about Kengo Kuma

REVIEW – SALONE DEL MOBILE & MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2025

New networks

4/15/2025

The Salone del Mobile.Milano and the Milan Design Week took place from 8 to 13 April 2025. In the review, you can find out which ideas are currently moving the creative minds and which concepts were particularly impressive.

ARCHITECTURE

Three questions to Weng Ling

3/29/2021

For the urban development project "Pavilions by the Seaside" in Haikou, China, curator Weng Ling combines architecture and art from a total of 20 international creatives, including famous names such as Bjarke Ingels and Anish Kapoor. The concept she explains to us in an interview.

ARCHITECTURE

Late spectacle

8/27/2020

Kengo Kuma has designed a new museum. The Kadokawa Culture Museum in Tokyo’s metropolitan region resembles an archaic jewelry box, and explores the potential stone offers as a material.

ARCHITECTURE

Scottish ark

10/10/2018

Scotland’s new architectural highlight has the makings of a Mecca for the design crowd: The V&A Dundee, a museum of design, opened on September 15, 2018 in a building created by Japanese star architect Kengo Kuma.