Kengo Kuma

Japanese architect (隈研吾 Kuma Kengo?; Kanagawa, 1954)

Kengo Kuma (隈研吾 Kuma Kengo?; Kanagawa, 1954) is a Japanese architect.

«As far as my architecture is concerned, I don't feel the need to make a unique work, I work instead, thinking that it can disappear; even if I don't manage to completely erase the architecture, I believe that an attitude that respects softness, man, the environment and nature, still has different results.»

Kuma was born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, in 1954, graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1979. In 1987, after being a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University in New York, he founded the "Spatial Design studio" (now "Kengo Kuma & Associates").
Today Kuma is a professor at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Tokyo.
Source: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kengo_Kuma