KENGO KUMA
www.kkaa.co.jp

1954 Born in Kanagawa Prefecture
1979 Completed the Master Course, Department of Architecture,
Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo
1985-86 Visiting Scholar Graduate School, Columbia University and Asian Cultural Council
1987 Established Spatial Design Studio
1990 Established Kengo Kuma &Associates
1998-99 Professor at the Faculty of Environmental Information, Keio University
2001 Professor at the Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University
2009 Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, University of Tokyo

Awards
1994 Good Design Architecture for “Yusuhara Visitor’s Center”, selected by the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry
1995 Grand Prize for JCD Design Award 1995 Cultural/ Public Institutions for “Kiro-san Observatory”
1997 Architectural Institute of Japan Award for “Noh Stage in the Forest”
First Place, AIA DuPONT Benedictus Award for “Water/ Glass”
Grand Prize, Regional Design Award (Kochi Prefecture) for “Yusuhara Visitor’s Center”
1999 Honorable Mention, Boston Society of Architecture Unbuilt Architecture Design Award 2000
2000 Grand Prize, Prize of AIJ, Tohoku Chapter for Design for “River/ Filter”
Grand Prize, INTER INTRA SPACE design selection for “Kitakami Canal Museum”
Director General of Forestry Agency Prize for “Bato-machi Hiroshige Museum”
2001 Togo Murano Award and Architectural institute Award for “Bato-machi Hiroshige Museum”
International Stone Architecture Award for “Stone Museum”, Italy
2002 Spirit of Nature Wood Architecture Award, Finland
2005 The Marble Architecture Award 2005 East Asia External Facings 1st prize for “Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum”
2007 Detail Prize 2007 special prize ’Chokkura Plaza and Shelter”
International Architecture Awards for the Best New Global Design for “Chokkura Plaza and Shelter”
2008 Energy Performance + Architecture Award, France
Emirates Leaf Award for Public Building/Suntory Museum of Art, Britain/UAE
Bobat 2008 for SAKENOHANA, France

Works and Projects by Kengo Kuma & Associates
1988 Kyodo Grating *1/Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
A Small Bathhouse in Izu *1/Kamo-gun, Shizuoka, Japan
1989 GT-M *2/Maebashi, Gunma, Japan
1991 RUSTIC/Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
Maiton Resort *3/Maiton, Phuket, Thailand
Doric/Minato, Tokyo, Japan
M2/Setagayaku, Tokyo, Japan
1992 Kinjo Golf Club/Soja, Okayama, Japan
Japan Museum (project-planning)
1993 Kinjo Golf Club
Japan Museum (project planning)/Minatoku, Tokyo, Japan
1994 MAN-JU/Sawara, Fukuoka, Japan
Yusuhara Visitor’s Center/Yusuhara, Takaoka, Kochi, Japan
Kiro-san Observatory/Yoshiumi, Ochi, Ehime, Japan
1995 Water/ Glass/Atami, Shizuoka, Japan
Space Design of Venice Biennale Japanese Pavilion/Venice, Italy
1996 Glass/ Shadow/Tomioka, Gunma, Japan
Noh Stage in the Forest/Tome, Miyagi, Japan
River/ Filter/Tamakawa, Ishikawa, Fukuoka, Japan,
1997 Eco Particle (project-planing)/Mitakojima, Osaka, Japan
Reverse Theater/Chofu, Tokyo, Japan
Memorial Park (project-planning)/Takasaki, Gunma, Japan
1998 Awaji S.A./Awaji, Hyogo, Japan
EXPO 2005 Basic Conception (project-planning)/Seto, Aichi, Japan
Seaside Subcenter (project-planning) /Minato, Tokyo, Japan
1999 Wood/ Slats/Hayama, Kanagawa, Japan
Kitakami Canal Museum/Ichinoseki, Miyagi, Japan
Super Street (project-planning)
2000 Bato-machi Hiroshige Museum/Bato, Nasu, Tochigi, Japan
Takayanagi Community Center/Kashiwazaki, Niigata
Sakushin Gakuin University/Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan
Makuhari Housing Complex/Makuhari, Chiba, Japan
Nasu History Museum/Nasu, Tochigi, Japan
Stone Museum/Nasu, Tochigi, Japan
2001 Porous House – Kurakuen Project (project-planning)
Institute of Disaster Prevention/Toride, Ibaraki, Japan
Parking Building Takasaki/Takasaki, Gunma, Japan
Sea/Filter/Onoda, Yamaguchi, Japan
Ginzan Bath House/Obanazawa, Yamagata, Japan
Bamboo House II – Kurakuen Project (project-planning)
The Skin That Filters The River (urban project-plannking)
2002 Great (Bamboo) Wall/Beijing, China
PLASTIC HOUSE/Meguro, Japan
Adobe Museum for Wooden Buddha/Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan
ADK Shochiku Square/Chuo, Tokyo, Japan
2003 Housing Exhibition Center/
Horai Onsen Bath House/Izu, Shizuoka, Japan
Forest/Floor/Karuizawa, Nagano, Japan
Soba Restaurant at Togakushi Shine/Nagano, Nagano, Japan
Baiso Buddhist Temple/Minato, Tokyo, Japan
JR Shibuya Station Renovation Project/Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
One Omotesando/Minato, Tokyo, Japan
Great (BAMBOO) WALL – Phase 2/Beijing, China
Shizuoka Expo Gate Building/Shizuoka, Japan
2004 Waketokuyama /Minato, Tokyo, Japan
Shinonome Apartment Building/Koto, Tokyo, Japan
The “Food and Agriculture” Museum/Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
Murai Masanari Art Museum/Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
NTT Aoyama Building Renovation Project/Minato, Tokyo, Japan
LVMH Osaka/Chuo, Osaka, Japan
COCON Karasuma/Shimogyo, Kyoto, Japan
2005 Fukusaki Hanging Garden/Osaka, Japan
Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum *4/Nagasaki, Japan
Bus Stop in Finland/Finland
KXK (Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Shinagawaku, Tokyo)
Banraisha *5/Minato, Tokyo, Japan
The Scape/Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
Lotus House/Eastern Japan
2006 Y-Hutte/Eastern Japan
Takanezawa Plaza/Shelter/Tochigi, Japan
Hoshinosato Annex/Kudamatsu, Yamaguchi, Tokyo
Ginzan Onsen Fujiya/Obanazawa, Yamagata, Japan
Z58/Shanghai, China
Yusuhara Town Hall/Yusuhara, Kochi, Japan
2007 Tokyo Midtown Project D North Wing *6/Minato, Tokyo, Japan
Suntory Museum *7/Minato, Tokyo, Japan
Modern Tea House Project in Frankfurt/Frankfurt, Germany
Tobata C Block Project *8/Fukuoka, Japan
Restaurant Sake no Hana, London, UK
Yien East, Japan
Ondo Civic Center, Kure City, Hiroshima, Japan

2008 Asahi Broad Casting Corporation, Osaka, Japan
Restaunt Kaika-tei, Fukui, Japan
SHISEI-KAN Kyoto University of Art and Design, Kyoto, Japan
Hoshakuji Station, eastern Japan
The Opposite House, Beijing, China
Jugetsu-Do Café and shop, Paris
Renovation of Tiffany flagship store in Ginza, Tokyo

Upcoming projects include:
Nezu Museum, Tokyo
Dellis Cay Spa Resort, Cays of the Turks and Caicos Island
Suzhou Dwelling Project, Suzhou, China
Tenerife Housing Project
Kenny Heights Museum, KL, Malaysia
New Sanlitun District Development Project, Beijing, China
Sanlitun SOHO project, Beijing, China
Spiritual Center of Chengdu, Chengdu, China
Chengdu Library, Chengdu, China
Besancon City of Arts and Culture Architecture, Besancon, France
Complex of Government Buildings related to the area of the “Eiffel Hall”-Western Railway Station of Budapest (Budapest, Hungary )*9/Budapest, Hungary
FRAC (FOND Regional D’Art Contemporain)

*1=collaboration with Satoko Shinohara / Spatial Design Studio
*2=collaboration with CAD Institute for Planning
*3=collaboration with Spatial Design Studio, Consultants of Technology
*4=collaboration with Nihon Sekkei
*5=collaboration with Taisei Corporation
*6=collaboration with Nikken Kensetsu
*7=collaboration with NTT Facilities
*8=collaboration with Takenaka Corporation
*9=collaboration with Peter Janesch and Team

Exhibitions
1992 Solo Exhibition “Tokyo Columns” (M2, Setagayaku, Tokyo)
1993 City of Labyrinth (Sezon Museum of Art, Toshimaku, Tokyo/Tsukashin Hall. Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture)
1995 Solo Exhibition “Velocity of Transmission” (Gallery MA, Minatoku, Tokyo)
Venice Biennale 1995 (Venice, Italy)
1996 Milan triennial (Milan, Italy)
1997 Virtual Architecture (The University Museum, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyoku, Tokyo)
2000 Venice Biennale 2000 (Venice, Italy)
ARCHI LAB 2000 (Orleans, France)
2001 Japanese Avant-Garde / Reality Projection, 16 Young Japanese Architects (RIBA, London, Great Britain)
2002 ARCHI LAB 2002 (Orleans, France)
Venice Biennale 2002, (Venice, Italy)
2004 Takeo Paper Show 2004 “HAPTIC” (Spiral, Minatoku, Tokyo)
Venice Biennale 2004 (Venice, Italy)
New Trends of Architecture in Europe and Asia-Pacific 2004-2005 (Lille, France)
Solo Exhibition “Kengo Kuma: Defeated Architecture” (Matsuya Ginza, Tyuoku, Tokyo)
Solo Exhibition “NIWA; WHERE THE PARTICLE RESPONCES”(Hotel New Otani Garden Court?Chiyodaku, Tokyo)
The “3_2_1_New architecture in Japan and Poland” exhibition (Center of Japanese and Technology “Manggha”, Krakow, Poland)
Archilab (Mori Art Museum, Minatoku, Tokyo)
2005 OribeTea House (Ceramics Park Mino, Tajimi, Gifu)
Entrez Lantement, E-11117 (Milan, Italy)
Solo Exhibition “Kengo Kuma, The architecture between tradition and innovation”
(Siracusa, Minan, Napoli, Italy, Stockholm, Sweden)
EXTREME EURASIA (Spiral, Minatoku, Tokyo)
KRUG x KUMA=8 (Hara Museum, Tokyo)
Solo Exhibition “Kuma Mock-Ups” (GA Gallery, Shibuyaku, Tokyo)
2006 GA International 2006(GA Gallery, Shibuyaku, Tokyo)
Solo Exhibition “ARCHILAB 2006” (Orleans, France)
2007 100 years of Mondadori Milano Capitale del Design Decode Elements(Castello Sforzesco, Milan, Italy)
Swarovski Crystal Palace (Swarovski Crystal Palace, Milan, Italy)
Tokyo Design Premio Tokyo designer’s Week in Malian (Tokyo Design Room, Milan, Italy)
Mitsui Fudosan Residential “Tsunagu” (Mitsui Fudosan/ Residential Booth, Milan, Italy)
THE “BARBARA CAPPOCHIN” BIENNIAL INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURAL EXHIBITION 2007 edition
Title: Kengo Kuma Two Carps : Water/Land-Village/Urban – phenomenology
2008 Participation in Milano Salone (Casa Umbrella)
11th International Architecture Biennale Venice
“Material Immaterial”, Solo Exhibition in I-Space, Chicago

Competitions
1993 Second Prize, Niigata City Performing Arts Center Competition (Niigata, Niigata Prefecture)
Second Prize, Abashiri Urban Planning Competition (Abashiri, Hokkaido Prefecture)
1996 Honorable Mention, Kansai-kan of the National Diet Library Competition (Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture)
Third Prize, Proposal for the Nagaoka Culture Forum Design Competition (Nagaoka,Niigata Prefecture)
2001 Shortlisted for Second Phase, Managed Workspace, RIBA competition (Yorkshire, Great Britain)
2002 First Prize, Tokyo University of Agricultural, Exhibition Center Competition (Setagaya, Tokyo Prefecture)
First Prize, Mori Building Corporation Odaiba Museum Competition (Minatoku, Tokyo)
2003 Honorable Mention, San Jose University School of Art Museum (California, USA)
Shortlisted for Final Phase, The Hepworth Gallery, Wakefield, RIBA competition (Wakefield, Great Britain)
Shortlisted for Second Phase, European Central Bank Urban Planning and Architectural Design Competition (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Honorable Mention, Kuamgusu Minakata Research Center Competition (Tanabe, Wakayama Prefecture)
2004 Shortlisted for Final Phase, National Palace Museum Southern Branch International Design Competition, (Chiayi, Taiwan)
2005 Shortlisted for International Competition for Museum of History of Polish Jews in Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland)
2006 Shortlisted for a competition for Shanghai Natural History Museum (Shanghai, China)
Finalist for BAM/PFA (Barkley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive) (Los Angeles, U.S.A.)
Finalist Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, USA
2007 Architecture Competition for the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland)
First Prize, Besancon City of Arts and Culture Architecture Competition (Besancon, France)
First Prize, Architectural Competition for the Complex of Government Buildings related to the area of the “Eiffel Hall”-Western Railway Station of Budapest (Budapest, Hungary)
2008 First Prize, Granada Performing Arts Center (Granada, Spain)
Asakusa Culture and Tourist Center (Tokyo, Japan)

Writings
1. Kengo Kuma, 10 Houses, Toso Publishing, Tokyo, 1986. Republished in paperback, Chikuma Publishing, 1990
2.Kengo Kuma, Introduction to Architecture-History and Ideology, Chikuma Publishing, Tokyo, 1994
3. Kengo Kuma, Catastrophe of Architectural Desire, Shin’yosha, Tokyo, 1994
4. Kengo Kuma, Beyond the Architectural Crisis, TOTO Publishing, Tokyo, 1995
5. Kengo Kuma, Anti-Object, Chikuma Publishing, Tokyo 2000
6. Kengo Kuma, Defeated Architecture, Iwanami Shoten, Tokyo 2004
7. Kengo Kuma, Lecture and Dialogue, INAX Publishing, 2007
8. Kengo Kuma and Yumi Kiyono, Shin Toshi-ron Tokyo (A New Debate on Cities), Shueisha Publishing, Tokyo, 2008
9. Kengo Kuma, A Natural Architecture, Iwanami Shoten, Tokyo, 2008
5 has been translated into English and 1, 5 and 6 into Chinese.

Monograph
Kengo Kuma: Digital Gardening, Special issue of Space Design, Kajima Publishing, Tokyo, November 1997.
Kengo Kuma: Geometries of Nature, L’arca Edizioni, Milano, 1999.
Kengo Kuma: The Japan Architect 38, Shinkentiku-sha, Tokyo 2000.
Kengo Kuma. Materials, Structures, Details, Shokokusha, Japan 2003 / Birkuhauser, Basel, 2004.
Botond Bognar, Kengo Kuma. Selected Works, Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 2005.
Luigi Alini, Kengo Kuma. Opere e Progetti, Mondadori Electa, Milano, 2005
Kengo Kuma, GA Architect, n.19, Tokyo, 2005.
Kengo Kuma, Edil Stampa, Rome, 2006.
Luigi Alini, Kengo Kuma. works and projects, Mondadori Electa, Milano, 2006
Volker Fischer/Ulrich Schneider, Kengo Kuma – Breathing Architecture, Birkhauser, Germany, 2008
Luigi Alini, Kengo Kuma – Liticita Contemporanee. Da Stone Museum a Stone Pavilion, Libria, Italy, 2008