Minimize: Small Architecture After 3/11 (Kengo Kuma)

Wednesday, October 10, 2012 Wood Auditorium Kengo Kuma, Architect and principal, Kengo Kuma Associates “We have to start from scratch,“ contends Kengo Kuma. The unprecedented damage wrought by the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown on March 11, 2011 collapsed structures and shook faith in large-scale architecture and power systems—most devastatingly, the rational concrete and steel of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Kuma advocates for minimizing by desig