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Point·Line·Plane

点·線·面

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Connecting people and things, people and people, people and nature

A Methodology Introduction for Kuma Kengo’s Particle Architecture

Against the ‘Winning Architecture’ That Dominated the 20th Century

Ostensibly a collection of writing that sets out Kuma Kengo’s theories of architecture, but also an antivolume, antimegastructure, and in some sense anticapitalist, left-field critique of where the architecture world finds itself today.

Point·Line·Plane is architectural theory, but written as narrative, full of intriguing vignettes, such as the fact that in Ancient Rome windows were fitted with slices of marble because glass was so expensive. It’s written in a very Japanese form: a series of mini essays that circle around a theme and is aimed at a highly literate audience.

Seventy-two related essays across four sections set out Kuma’s rejection of the architecture of volume and mass that categorized the twentieth century in favor of a more ad hoc architecture that can be easily disassembled and, by drawing on tried and tested practices of the past, touch the earth more lightly.

Kuma Kengo

Born in Yokohama in 1954, he studied architecture at the University of Tokyo and was a visiting scholar at Columbia University’s Department of Architecture and Urban Planning in the United States. He is currently a principal of Kengo Kuma and Associates and a special professor and professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo. His major works include Kiro-San observatory (1994), Water/Glass, Atami, Noh Stage in the Forest /Moributai Traditional Performing Arts Museum, Bato Hiroshige Museum, Great (Bamboo) Wall House, Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum, Suntory’s Tokyo office building, China Academy of Art’s Folk Art Museum, V&A Dundee, and the Japan National Stadium for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Lim Taehee

After completing a research program in Architecture at Kyoto University, he returned to South Korea and gained six years of practical experience in the field. He later went back to Japan and earned a Ph.D. in Architecture from Kyoto Institute of Technology. Currently, he runs Im Taehee Design Studio, continuing to work on various projects.

Song Tae-wook

He graduated from Yonsei University’s Department of Korean Language and Literature and received his Ph.D. from the same graduate school. He was a researcher at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and is currently a university lecturer and translator. He is the author of The Renaissance Man Kim Seung-ok (co-author), and the translator of I Am a Cat, Kokoro, The Light of Illusion, Story of the Crusades, Cut Off, Those Praying Hands, The Birth of Form, We All Return Home,* and other books. He won the Korea Publishing Culture Award (Translation) for the complete works of Natsume Soseki.

『나는 고양이로소이다』 『마음』 『환상의 빛』 『십자군 이야기』 『잘라라, 기도하는 그 손을』 『형태의 탄생』 『우리는 모두 집으로 돌아간다』 등이 있다. 나쓰메 소세키 전집으로 한국출판문화상(번역 부문)을 수상했다.
은 안그라픽스에서 발행하는 웹진입니다. 사람과 대화를 통해 들여다본
을 나눕니다.