Kengo Kuma stands as one of the most renowned contemporary architects whose projects—including the V&A Dundee Design Museum, the Tiffany Store in Tokyo's Ginza district, Tokyo's National Stadium, and numerous other structures worldwide—have commanded global attention. His innate understanding of context, landscape, and history, combined with his deliberate selection of materials—glass, stone, or wood—and his masterful orchestration of line and light create a distinctive architectural vision. The architecture and landscape photographer Erieta Attali, based in New York and Paris, captures these qualities through her camera with remarkable sensitivity: the transparency that allows structure and surroundings to breathe together, making Kengo Kuma's work truly singular.

Less widely recognized are the architect's hand drawings, now on view in the exhibition through September 13th. While Kuma conceives architecture in his drawings as a flowing process—a tapestry woven from material and relationship to environment—Attali directs her photographic eye toward those hushed moments where built structure, nature, and light converge. In the dialogue between drawing and photograph, a generative tension emerges: between concept and experience, imagination and reality.

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