Table of Contents

"The Trauma of Architecture: Weaving, Uniting, Overlaying, Bending," essay by Luigi Alini "The Return to Materials," essay by Kengo Kuma Works and Projects: Kiro-san Observatory, Water/Glass, Noh Stage in the Forest, Project for a Memorial Park, Kitakami Canal Museum, Hiroshige Ando Museum, Takayanagi Community Center, Nasu History Museum, Stone Museum, Ginzan Bath House, Great (Bamboo) Wall, Plastic House, Adobe Museum for Wooden Buddha, Forest/Floor, Soba Restaurant at Togakushi, Baiso Buddhist Temple, One Omotesando, Shinonome Apartment Building, Food and Agriculture Museum, Murai Masanari Art Museum Anthology of Writing List of Works Biography Bibliography Collaborators Picture credits

About the Author

Luigi Alini is a researcher in the Technology of Architecture at the Syracuse Faculty of Architecture, University of Catania. He devotes his attention to strategies of execution in architecture, with particular reference to the connections between technique, technology, and design. He is the author of the volume Le strategie esecutive. L'integrazione delle competenze nel progette di architettura.