Kentaro Kumon (photographer) ✕ Makoto Yamaguchi (architect) Three gardens borrowing the ocean scenery

In the Seto Inland Sea floats the Honjima Island. Located on this peaceful island in Kagawa Prefecture with about 300 people, the Honjima Refuge has a site of over 3,300 square meters with buildings built between the Meiji and mid-Showa ....

Kentaro Kumon (photographer) ✕ Makoto Yamaguchi (architect) Creating layers of hypotheses

MONOSPINAL, an office building for a game production company, emerged in 2023 in Asakusabashi, Tokyo. The architecture designed by Makoto Yamaguchi is surrounded by nine layers of sloping walls, making it impossible for passers-by ...

Kentaro Kumon, Makoto Yamaguchi and Chris Tomoko New Perspective and Duo’s Journey

With J-WAVE navigator Chris Tomoko as the facilitator, photographer Kentaro Kumon and architect Makoto Yamaguchi look at a series of art photography works and talk about the beauty of shakkei (borrowed scenery) in Japanese gardens ...

Kentaro Kumon and Makoto Yamaguchi DUO’S JOURNEY

How did an architect and photographer come to travel to Japanese gardens? We will look back at the beginnings of "Borrowed Landscapes - Matières Next Door" and discuss the changes and discoveries made thus far, as well as where we ...