Looking Out Week 2

GC Prostho Museum Research Centre, Japan Kengo Kuma

“You could say that my aim is ‘to recover the place’. The place is a result of nature and time; this is the most important aspect. I think my architecture is some kind of frame of nature. With it, we can experience nature more deeply and more intimately. Transparency is a characteristic of Japanese architecture; I try to use light and natural materials to get a new kind of transparency.” -- Kuma 
The intimate integration of material and immaterial to "frame" can be found in many of Kengo's buildings. I first "tumbled upon" this museum front but was impressed by all the consequent search results for Kuma's work. The use of wood to recreate a large Cidori set speaks to timber's structural potential and the ever present cultural relevance.

-Chloe