Kengo Kuma - Breathing Architecture: The Teahouse Of The Museum Of Applied Arts Frankfurt

 Kengo Kuma s Teahouse is a masterly reinterpretation of a classical Japanese building type. Delivered in August 2007 for the Park of the Frankfurt Museum of Applied Arts (a Richard Meier Building), Kuma s innovative structure in flexible, semi-transparent, breathing Tenara-Membrane - inflated by means of a pneumatic system to a blossom-like form - houses in the interior the classical elements for Japanese tea ceremony. Integrated LED technology allows the use of the teahouse at night; the interior can be heated by way of the membrane.
The monograph, including an original text by Kuma himself, gives an in-depth documentation of this lyrical temporary structure - an outstanding example of ephemeral architecture, combining poetry and technology - with many unpublished sketches, technical plans and with splendid colour photographs.

• Format Hardback | 132 pages
• Dimensions 240 x 220 x 15.24mm | 576g
• Publication date 08 May 2008
• Publisher Birkhauser
• Publication City/Country Basel, Switzerland
• Language German
• Edition Bilingual edition
• Illustrations note 126 Illustrations, color; 62 Illustrations, black and white
• ISBN10 3764387874
• ISBN13 9783764387877