Kengo Kuma

Quick Facts

Full Name	Kengo Kuma
Occupation	Architect
Date Of Birth	Aug 8, 1954(1954-08-08)
Age	70
Birthplace	Yokohama
Country	Japan
Birth City	Kanagawa Prefecture
Horoscope	Leo

Kengo Kuma Biography

Kengo Kuma is one of the most popular and richest Architect who was born on August 8, 1954 in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

In 1987, he founded the “Spatial Design Studio”, and in 1990, he established his own firm “Kengo Kuma & Associates”. He has taught at Columbia University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Keio University, where in 2008, Kuma was awarded his Ph.D. in Architecture. As a professor at the Graduate School of Architecture at the University of Tokyo, he runs diverse research projects concerning architecture, urbanity and design within his own Laboratory, Kuma Lab. His firm, Kengo Kuma & Associates employs over 150 architects in Tokyo and Paris, designing projects of diverse type and scale throughout the world.

Kuma’s stated goal is to recover the tradition of Japanese buildings and to reinterpret these traditions for the 21st century. In 1997, he won the Architectural Institute of Japan Award and in 2009 was made an Officier de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France. Kuma lectures extensively and is the author of numerous books and articles discussing and criticizing approaches in contemporary architecture. His seminal text Anti-Object: The Dissolution and Disintegration of Architecture written in 2008, calls for an architecture of relations, respecting its surroundings instead of dominating them. Kuma’s projects maintain a keen interest in the manipulation of light with nature through materiality.

Kengo Kuma Net Worth

Kengo Kuma is one of the richest Architect from Japan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Kengo Kuma 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Kuma was born in Kanagawa, and attended Eiko Gakuen junior and senior high schools. After graduating in Architecture from the University of Tokyo in 1979, he worked for a time at Nihon Sekkei and Toda Corporation. He then moved to New York City for further studies at Columbia University as a visiting researcher from 1985 to 1986.

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According to our records, Kengo Kuma married to Satoko Shinohara. As of December 1, 2023, Kengo Kuma’s is not dating anyone.

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Although remaining in continuity with Japanese traditions with the clarity of structural solutions, implied tectonics, and importance of light and transparency, Kuma does not restrain himself to the banal and superficial use of ‘light’ materials. Instead, he goes much deeper, extending to the mechanisms of composition to expand the possibilities of materiality. He utilizes technological advancements which can challenge unexpected materials, such as stone, into providing the same sense of lightness and softness as glass or wood. Kuma attempts to attain a sense of spatial immateriality as a consequence of the ‘particulate nature’ of the light and establishing a relationship between a space and the natural round around it.

Facts & Trivia

Curtis Ranked on the list of most popular Architect. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Japan. Kengo Kuma celebrates birthday on August 8 of every year.