Point line plane / Kengo Kuma.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kuma, Kengo, 1954- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Japan--History--21st century.

Architecture.

Physical Description:

210 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Thames & Hudson Ltd., 2024.

Contents:

A DISCOURSE ON METHOD The 20th Century: An Age of Volume

Lines in Japanese Architecture and the Work of Mies van der Rohe

From Kandinsky's Compositions to Gibson's Particles

Gibson and Particles

Intellectualism vs Dada

From Time as Motion to Time as Material

From Additive Design to Computational Design

Bruno Latour and the Chronophotographic Gun

Architecture and Time

Liberating Time from Motion

Kandinsky's Transcendence and Embedding of Dimensions

New World Views and Effective Theories

An Expanded, Multi-Layered World

The Extra Large Architecture of Finance Capitalism.

POINT Big World, Little Pebbles

From Greece to Rome

The Seagram Building as an Aggregation of Points

The Challenge of Points in the Design of Stone Plaza

The Jump from Point to Volume

The Blue Stone of Brunelleschi

Brunelleschi's Innovations with Points

Brunelleschi's Inductive Architecture

Deductive and Inductive Architecture

Plastic Tanks and Caddisflies

Connecting Points with Liquid

Metabolism and Points

Stone Sliced Thinner than Wood

Japanese and Chinese Roof Tiles

Point Distribution and Ageing

Triangles as Versatile Points

TSUMIKI: An Expandable System Modelled on Pine Branches

Checkerboard Patterns as Points

Railway Gravel as Free Points

Checkerboard Patterns and Frugality

Dispersal and the Sahara Desert.

LINE The Volumes of Le Corbusier and Mies

Kenzo Tange's Unaligned Lines

From Line to Volume: The Degradation of Japanese Architecture

Starting Out in a Wooden Hut

The Lines of Gaudi

Pointillism

The Lines of the Tropical Rainforest

The Lines of Modernism and the Lines of Japanese Architecture

Disputes over Tradition and the Robust Lines of the Jomon Period

The Movable Lines of Japanese Wood-Frame Construction

Core Pressing and Surface Pressing

The Fine Lines of Hiroshige

An Architectural Sudden Shower

The Line-Drawing Method and the V&A Dundee

Living Lines and DeadLines

Lines and the Theory of Touch

Lines Wandering Between Life and Death

The Lines of Ultrafine Carbon Fibres

Silk-Like Lines of the Tomioka Warehouse

The Expansion of Architecture and the New Physics

From an Evolutionary Model to a Multi-Layered Model

Superstring Theory and Musical Architecture

Deleuze and the Relativity of Matter.

PLANE Rietveld vs De Klerk

Rietveld vs Miesha

Discovering Bedouin Fabrics in the Sahara

Semper vs Laugier

A Fabric Tea Room in Frankfurt

Frank Lloyd Wright's Desert Encampment

Fabric House in Taiki

Casa Umbrella: Sheltering People in Emergencies

Fuller's Domes and the Democratization of Architecture

Saving the World with Tensegrity

Cells and Tensegrity

Hojo-an, Eight Centuries On.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

050002796X

9780500027967

OCLC:

1418829741