Kengo Kuma is a Japanese architect whose early work pursued lightness, transparency, and material humility. Favoring wood, bamboo, stone, and paper, he designed structures that dissolve into their environment through repetition, porosity, and layered envelopes.
His early buildings reflect a desire to counter heavy postwar architecture by advocating “weak architecture”—an approach grounded in tactility, openness, and gentle integration with site.
Kengo Kuma is a Japanese architect known for early works emphasizing material lightness, porosity, and integration with landscape.
Kengo Kuma is a Japanese architect known for early designs built from wood lattices and porous materials that blend architecture with air and landscape.
