Design and collaborations
Quarella & Kengo Kuma for Stone Grove
Kengo Kuma
Kengo Kuma (1954) decided he would devote his life to architecture at a very young age, after visiting the National Stadium for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics in Yoyogi, designed by Kenzo Tange. He studied architecture at the University of Tokyo (receiving a Master’s degree in 1979) and founded Kengo Kuma Associates in 1990.
In his capacity as professor at the Graduate School of Architecture at the University of Tokyo, he founded the Kuma Lab for studies into new materials and led an advanced course on digital design and manufacture. His multi-award-winning studio aims to produce architecture that naturally blends with its surroundings, proposing a non-invasive, human-scale vision of design. The firm is constantly on the lookout for new materials to replace cement and steel, and searching for a new approach in a post-industrial society.