Intervention on Casa Battlo

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Intervention on Casa Batlló, Barcelona (Spain) Kengo Kuma and Associates

Client
Casa Batlló.

Architects
Kengo Kuma and Associates / Javier Villar Ruiz, Jaime Fernandez Calvache, Gorka Beitia Zarandona, David Minton Albero, Mila Dimitrovska, Kimio Suzuki (team).

Consultants
Chesneys Architectural (spiral stair); Kriskadecor (aluminum chain links); Viabizzuno (lighting design).

Photography and Film by ImagenSubliminal (Miguel de Guzman + Rocio Romero)
Music by Draganov

Architects: Kengo Kuma and Associates


Kengo Kuma was born in 1954. Before establishing Kengo Kuma & Associates in 1990, he received his Master’s Degree in Architecture from the University of Tokyo, where he is currently a Professor of Architecture. Having been inspired by Kenzo Tange’s Yoyogi National Gymnasium, built for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, Kengo Kuma decided to pursue architecture at a young age, and later entered the Architecture program at the University of Tokyo, where he studied under Hiroshi Hara and Yoshichika Uchida. During his Graduate studies, he made a research trip across the Sahara, exploring various villages and settlements, observing a unique power and beauty. After his time as a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University in New York, he established his office in Tokyo. Since then, Kengo Kuma & Associates has designed architectural works in over twenty countries and received prestigious awards, including the Architectural Institute of Japan Award, the Spirit of Nature Wood Architecture Award (Finland), and the International Stone Architecture Award (Italy), among others. Kengo Kuma & Associates aims to design architecture which naturally merges with its cultural and environmental surroundings, proposing gentle, human scaled buildings. The office is constantly in search of new materials to replace concrete and steel, and seeks a new approach for architecture in a post-industrial society.

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