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Kengo Kuma Quotes

born 1954

Kengo Kuma (隈研吾, Kuma Kengo, born 1954) is a Japanese architect and professor in the Department of Architecture (Graduate School of Engineering) at the University of Tokyo. Frequently compared to contemporaries Shigeru Ban and Kazuyo Sejima, Kuma is also noted for his prolific writings.

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“Objects freeze and fix spaces that are otherwise indeterminate and ambiguous, they compress information – and that is why people continue to construct them."

"The simplest form of compression is proportional compression. A map reduces space by this means, premised on a bird’s-eye view. For the subject, space is reduced to a two-dimensional pattern."

"All ideas come from sensation or reflection. Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas. How comes it to be furnished?"

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Kengo Kuma (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.