About

This documentary chronicles a 15-year journey following one of Japan’s celebrated architects, Kengo Kuma. He has designed hundreds of architectural projects all over the world. What makes his work so fascinating that people from around the globe seek him out?
His designs are characterized by small, particle-like elements and make extensive use of natural materials like wood. Through the film, audiences will experience the wisdom of his architecture, which seeks harmony between humanity and nature.
From 2010 to 2025, director Hiromoto Oka, armed with a single camera, traveled the world with his former university mentor, Kuma, to document over 80 of his projects and their creative processes.
This period witnessed the Great East Japan Earthquake, the global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the worsening effects of climate change.
As poetic and fragmented as a Japanese haiku, the film gradually reveals the philosophy behind Kuma’s work, which ranges from the main stadium for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics to small pavilions for students and the public.

Architecuture in the movie

1 Kirosan Observatory
2 Yusuhara Town Hall
3 Noh Stage in the Forest
4 Stone Museum
5 Takayanagi Community Center
6 Nakagawa-machi Bato Hiroshige Museum of Art
7 Great (Bamboo) Wall
8 Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum
9 Lotus House
10 Yusuhara Town Hall
11 Suntory Museum of Art
12 Ginzan Onsen Fujiya
13 Nezu Museum
14 Garden Terrace Nagasaki Hotels & Resorts
15 GC Prostho Museum Research Center
16 Community Market Yusuhara
17 Yusuhara Wooden Bridge Museum
18 Mêmu Meadows
19 Starbucks Coffee at Dazaifutenmangu Omotesando
20 Nagaoka City Hall Aore
21 Frac Sud – Cité de l’art contemporain
22 Kyushu Geibun Kan Museum (Main Building)
23 Asakusa Culture Tourist Information Center
24 Cité des Arts et de la Culture de Besançon
25 Ginza Kabukiza
26 Darius Milhaud Conservatory of Music
27 SunnyHills at Minami-Aoyama
28 Hayama no Mori
29 University Of Tokyo, Ubiquitous Computing Research Building
30 Entrepot Macdonald – Education and Sports Complex
31 Takao Sanguchi Station
32 Mushizuka
33 China Academy of Art’s Folk Art Museum
34 Komatsu Matere Fabric Laboratory fa-bo
35 Iiyama Cultural Hall
36 Beijing Qianmen
37 Under One Roof Project for the EPFL ArtLab
38 Minamisanriku Sun Sun Shopping Village
39 Portland Japanese Garden Cultural Village
40 Japan House São Paulo
41 Coeda House
42 Kengo Kuma: a LAB for materials
43 Moriyama City Library
44 MIFA 1862
45 V&A Dundee
46 Yusuhara Community Library / Yururi Yusuhara
47 Xiangcheng Yangcheng Lake Tourist Transportation Center
48 Ozu-Ana
49 Meiji Jingu Museum
50 Ochanomizu Univ. Hisao & Hiroko Taki Plaza
51 Toyoma Kaikokan
52 Odunpazarı Modern Museum
53 Nakahashi
54 Japan National Stadium
55 CLT Park Harumi
56 Taketa History and Culture Museum
57 Rikuzentakata Amway House – Machi no Engawa
58 Tokorozawa Sakura Town Kadokawa Culture Museum
59 Taketa Castle Town Plaza
60 Minamisanriku Hamare Utatsu
61 Takanawa Gateway Station
62 Nabeshima Shoto Park Toilet
63 GREENable HIRUZEN
64 Kuma Mobile Office Higashikawa
65 Hans Christian Andersen Museum
66 Musée Albert Kahn
67 Minamisanriku 311 Memorial
68 Kanjoin Temple
69 Yama-Tani
70 Outdoor music hall D Stage
71 Aoi Aso Shrine / National Treasure Memorial Hall
72 Engawa – Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Southern Apex
73 UCCA Ceramic Museum
74 Saint Denis Pleyel Station
75 Mabi Reconstruction Disaster Prevention Park – Bamboo Gate
76 KENGO KUMA：Onomatopoeia Architecture at Venice
77 Moriyama City Hall
78 Expo 2025 Portugal Pavilion
79 Expo 2025 Malaysia Pavilion
80 Expo 2025 Qatar Pavilion
81 Expo 2025 EARTH MART
82 World Heritage and Pyrenees National Park House in Gavarnie

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