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KENGO KUMA: BREATHING ARCHITECTURE
Volker Fischer & Ulrich Schneider
Birkhauser, 2008
Softcover
132 pages
Fully illustrated, colour & b+w
ISBN: 9783764387877
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Delivered in August 2007 for the Park of the Frankfurt Museum of Applied Arts, Kengo Kuma's Teahouse is an innovative structure in flexible, semi-transparent material. The 'breathing' Tenara-Membrane - inflated by means of a pneumatic system to a blossom-like form - houses in the interior the classical elements for Japanese tea ceremony. Integrated LED technology allows the use of the teahouse at night and the interior can be heated by way of the membrane.
This monograph, including an original text by Kuma himself, gives an in-depth documentation of this lyrical temporary structure - an outstanding example of ephemeral architecture, combining poetry and technology - with many unpublished sketches, technical plans and colour photographs.
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