Modern Japanese Garden Kengo Kuma
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Kengo Kuma: Portland Japanese Garden: Botond Bognár …
Kengo Kuma is a celebrated Japanese architect and principal of Kengo Kuma and Associates. He is a professor at the Graduate School of Architecture at the University of Tokyo. Read more…
Behind the Building: Portland Japanese Garden by Kengo Kuma
Behind the Building: Portland Japanese Garden by Kengo Kuma Be the next featured architect in our “Behind the Building” series! Click here to find out how. Nestled in the hills of Portland, Oregon, is a gateway that transports visitors from the forests of the Pacific Northwest to the gardens of Eastern Asia. Read more…
Take a Tour of Kengo Kuma’s Expansion of the Portland …
Kuma referenced Kyoto's Katsura Rikyu, a traditional masterpiece of Japanese gardening, as he "adjusted the Japanese spirit to Portland's landscape." Collaborating together with Sadafumi Uchiyama—a third generation Japanese gardener from Kyushu who is the Garden Curator—the existing land was reused and optimized, adding an additional 3.4 acres of space to the 9.1-acre garden to create an adjacent Cultural Village. Read more…
