Feb 27, 2018
Kengo Kuma’s Architecture of the Future
“... Kuma’s use of these materials is also social, and is intended as a social criticism. For him, the Japan of the economic miracle, which built itself up on masses of concrete, long ago lost its way. Finding one’s way back to the techniques that predated modernization can also point the way to a different economic framework. “We have to create that new system,” he said. “The architect can show the system of the society.” Show people what they build, he implied, and I will show you who they are.”
