OPTICAL ILLUSIONS.(Hiroshige Ando Museum)(Brief Article) The Architectural Review | October 1, 2001| | COPYRIGHT 2001 EMAP Architecture. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Built to house a small collection of the work of Hiroshige Ando, one of Japan's greatest woodblock artists, this museum echoes the artist's sense of delicacy and dematerialization through an architecture of enviable simplicity and precision.

Kengo Kuma's recent work explores different routes towards a singular goal: the dematerialization of buildings of diverse type and scale. In the Glass/Water house in Atami (AR March 2000), an oval dining pavilion of glass appears to float on an infinity pool that extends visually from a cliff to the sea far below. Precast ...

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