PREFACE by Kengo Kuma 6 THE ANTI-OBJECTIVE ARCHITECTURE OF KENGO KUMA by Kenneth Frampton 10 WATER-GLASS 26 Water/Glass 28 River/Filter 40 Kitakami Canal Museum 50 Forest/Floor 62 Z58 72 Glass/Wood 84 WOOD-GRASS-BAMBOO 90 Noh Stage in the Forest 92 Great Bamboo Wall 104 Nakagawa-machi Bato Hiroshige Museum 116 Takayanagi Community Centre 128 Ginzan Onsen Bath House 140 Ginzan Onsen Fujiya Ryokan 152 Yusuhara Town Hall 164 Masanari Murai Memorial Museum of Art 172 GC Prostho Museum 184 Yusuhara Marché 196 Yusuhara Wooden Bridge Museum 208 Komatsu Seiren Fabric Laboratory fa-bo 220 Under One Roof 226 Japan House S??o Paulo 234 STONE-EARTH-CERAMIC 240 Lotus House 242 Chokkura Plaza 254 Adobe Museum for a Wooden Buddha 266 Museum of Wisdom 276 Paper Snake 288 Ondo Civic Centre 300 Nezu Museum 310 Casalgrande Ceramic Cloud 322 China Academy of Arts Folk Art Museum 330 V&A Dundee 336 Project credits 342 Chronological list of projects 345 Acknowledgments 351 Picture credits 351