Architect

Kengo Kuma

A Japanese architect whose work often softens civic and cultural buildings through wood, screens, layered thresholds, and close attention to urban atmosphere.

Born 1954

Japanese

Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

museum cultural building landscape civic building tourism infrastructure urban infill bamboo wood

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Gallery

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Exterior view of the Nezu Museum, showing the low eaves and bamboo-lined approach in Tokyo.

Gallery

Kengo Kuma gallery

Nezu Museum exterior view

Exterior view of the Nezu Museum in Tokyo.

Credit: Kakidai

Rights: CC BY-SA 4.0 · licensed

Works

Bureaus

Books

Affiliations

Practices and bureaus connected to this architect

Bureau

Kengo Kuma & Associates

bureau · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Role: founder

Years: 1990

Founder relationship

Selected works

Architectural works currently attached to this architect

Work

Nezu Museum

2009 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Museum

Kengo Kuma

Work

Asakusa Culture Tourist Information Center

2012 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Tourist information center

Kengo Kuma