Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has designed significant projects around the world including the Japan National Stadium and V&A Dundee. Editor Philip Jodidio picks ten of the architect's key projects from a new book dedicated to his work.
Using 500 illustrations, including photographs, plans and sketches, Kuma Complete Works 1988-Today covers the architect's career from early designs including the Stone Museum to recent projects like Sydney's The Exchange.
According to architectural historian Jodidio, it was Kuma's varied body of work that made him a suitable subject for the book, which is part of publisher Taschen's XXL series.
"I have found that his approach, often based on sustainable materials with unexpected and innovative designs, which nonetheless are related to Japanese tradition made him a good subject," Jodidio told Dezeen. "I have written the Taschen monographs on Tadao Ando and Shigeru Ban as well ? for these big books, it is also necessary for an architect to have a substantial, interesting body of work and that is the case of Kuma."

Jodidio believes that Kuma's ideas about architecture set him aside from other well-known Japanese architects.
"Kengo Kuma speaks of 'learning to live with less' as one theme of his work, this is somewhat against the prevailing culture, at least where significant international architects are concerned," he said.
The editor hopes that the book, which looks at 41 of Kuma's projects in detail, will g...