Description

In this book based on their ethnographie field, Sophie Houdart and Minato Chihiro offer a highly original approach to the Japanese architect Kuma Kengo and his architecture. This unconventional monograph is built on the hypothesis, both in the text and in the pictures, that if there is something recognisable in « Kuma's architecture », it should also be visible in the architect's practice, in the routine and the mass of details recorded every day. What connection is there between the materiality endorsed by Kuma in his architectural philosophy and what actually takes place in the practice - the work using wood or polystyrene, paint, glue and pixels ?

Donner Lieu is a publishing, experience, with an associative and experimental character. It was born from the necessity to improve our understanding of the contemporary world through space, the different ways to conceive it and to give it meaning. Donner Lieu intends to gather a community of authors and readers around a shared concern : to question human spatialties and temporalities, the act of inhabiting through facts and representations.