Description of event
Balázs Bognár, Partner and Executive Vice President of Kengo Kuma & Associates/KKAA (Tokyo, Japan), earned a BA in Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis and an M.Arch. at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. He has worked at KKAA since 2007 with a focus on projects in the U.S., Canada, Australia, Japan, and China. In that context, he served as Chief Manager for the Cultural Crossing expansion at the Portland Japanese Garden, collaborating closely in that work with Department of Landscape Architecture alum Sadafumi Uchiyama (BLA 1991, MLA 1993), who was then Chief Curator of the garden and Director of the International Japanese Garden Training Center there. In his lecture, Bognár will explore the idea of “place-time continuum” and explain how KKAA prioritizes landscape as a formative method and basis for quality and significance in architecture.
This lecture is made possible with support from the Stanley H. White Lecture endowed fund, and it is being co-sponsored with the Illinois School of Architecture.
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For more information about this and other events in our Spring 2026 lecture series, please contact Prof. David L. Hays.
Photos: Miko Hayashi and Jeremy Bitterman