Kengo Kuma: "Minimize: Small Architecture After 3/11"

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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 designing modest, self-powered interventions that are made with local materials. "The whole world is shifting toward small things. We are no longer passive creatures who are spoon-fed from a giant yet unreliable system," he argues. "A new relationship is being formed between people and the world.” Free and open to the public http://events.gsapp.org/event/minimize-kengo-kuma