005 | KKAA | Kengo Kuma

Kengo Kuma established Kengo Kuma & Associates in 1990. KKAA proposes architecture that opens up new relationships between nature, technology, and human beings. Kengo Kuma’s major publications include Zen Shigoto (Kengo Kuma - the complete works, Daiwa Shobo), Ten Sen Men (“point, line, plane”, and many others. Kengo Kuma is currently a University Professor and Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo.
In Kengo Kuma’s Interview with us, he talks about the importance of the conversation between his body and the place, how the section drawings and models hint the relationship between the land and sky, and his insistence of involving craftsmen in the process as early as possible. Kuma also shares with us the lesson from bird nest that we need to build our own “nests” with materials nearby and more.