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|Nature and architecture combined at the Royal Academy
The Royal Academy will host Nature and Architecture, a display of work by Kengo Kuma, until August 12th.
Kuma is a celebrated Japanese architect who is filling the role of the Royal Academy's annual architecture lecturer for 2008. He has selected seven of his buildings as the focus for the Nature and Architecture exhibition.
While he has designed a number of projects in Europe recently, the majority of Kuma's work is based in Asia. Six of the buildings featured in the display are in Japan and one is in China.
They span a period from 1995, when Kuma's Water/Glass House first won him international recognition, to 1997, when he designed the Suntory Museum of Art in Tokyo.
A number of themes recur in Kuma's architectural designs, often relating to the interpretation of traditional materials to create a new relationship between natural and artificial entities.
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