History and Culture Museum, Taketa
Architect: Kengo Kuma
Year: 2020
Location: Taketa (Ōita), Japan
Category: Culture / Leisure / Museum
Status: Built
About
At the foot of the ancestral castle of Oka, a small information center tells the history of the enclave beneath an expressive play of roofs clad in a lattice of smoked bamboo. A bamboo gallery marks the garden’s boundary, leading to an elevator that travels the steep ascent to connect the museum to what was home to Tanomura Chikuden, painter of wistful Edo period sceneries.