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Architect Kuma Kengo: ‘a product of place’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Roger Pulvers
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The renowned architect's life work and his new book, My Place, reflects an awareness of humanity's close affinity to the world around us

“I wanted to go to a place that wasn’t neat and tidy, somewhere dangerous. I was bored, and it had something to do with the era and something to do with myself too.”

In a recent letter to fellow architect Sejima Kazuyo, Kuma Kengo expressed in the above words the tenor of his mood and the disarray of his esprit during his student days.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 11 , Issue 26 , June 2013 , e3
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