Material Immaterial. The New York of Kengo Kuma

Material Immaterial: The New Work of Kengo Kuma presents more than thirty of the architect´s recent works, including high-profile commissions such as the Suntory Museum in Tokyo and the Ondo Civic Center in Kure; the exquisite Lotus House in Zushi; large-scale urban developments like Sanlitun Village South in Beijing; as well as tea pavilions and installations that have exhibited in the United States, England, Italy, South Korea, China, Germany, and France, many of them never before published. The book also includes an extended essay on the evolution of the architect s work, from the founding of Kengo Kuma and Associates in 1990 to the present. An accompanying exhibit the first retrospective of the architect´s work, also titled Material Immaterial displayed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in late 2008 and will travel to locales around the world over the next two years.