Description

This volume celebrates the latest architectural endeavor of the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon: the new building of the Centro de Arte Moderna (CAM), designed by architect Kengo Kuma in collaboration with the landscape architect Vladimir Djurovic. More than a building, this project is a living dialogue between architecture, nature, and the city—transforming museum and garden into a unified public space, rooted in the Foundation’s cultural mission.

Through the lens of Erieta Attali, award-winning architectural photographer, the building and its surrounding landscape are captured in striking, atmospheric images that reveal the subtle interplay of form, light, and material. Her photographs—both precise and poetic—highlight how the building and garden create spaces for rest, interaction, and shared experience.

Accompanying Attali’s photographs are insightful texts that take the reader deeper into the story of the renewal. Attali introduces the project from her unique visual perspective, while conversations with Kuma and Djurovic reveal the close creative partnership between museum, architect, and landscape designer. An essay by architectural historian Ana Tostões anchors the project within the Gulbenkian Foundation’s legacy and evolving role as a public cultural force. Even more than a bold architectural gesture, the museum’s sculptural roof—Kuma’s poetic extension of the landscape— extends the building into the garden, dissolving boundaries and reclaiming the green space as an urban refuge. The luminous photographs by Attali bring this dialogue of form and space to life: the roof appears to breathe with the surrounding garden, capturing the serenity and generosity at the core of the design. This biodiverse oasis, created by Djurovic, is freely accessible to the public and embodies the Foundation’s commitment to sustainability, community, and cultural continuity.

The Centro de Arte Moderna stands as a testament to the Gulbenkian Foundation’s enduring legacy and forward-looking spirit—affirming a future in which architecture becomes a true catalyst for connection.

With contributions by Erieta Attali, Vladimir Djurovic, Seng Kuan, Kengo Kuma, Andres Lepik, and Ana Tostões.

Details

Weight	950 g
Dimensions	30 × 24 × 30 mm
Edited by	Erieta Attali
With contributions by	Erieta Attali, Vladimir Djurovic, Seng Kuan, Kengo Kuma, Andres Lepik, and Ana Tostões.
Language	English
Design	Studio Victor Balko
Features	Clothbound hardcover, full color, stich bound, embossed
Size	24 x 30 cm / 9.4 x 11.8 in
Illustrations	approx. 70 photographs by Erieta Attali
Page count	128 pages
Publication Date	May 2026
ISBN	978-3-96680-041-9

Sicherheits- und Herstellerinformationen / Manufacturer and Safety Information

Hersteller/Manufacturer: ArchiTangle GmbH
Adresse/Address: Meierottostr. 1, 10719 Berlin, Germany
Email: gpsr@architangle.com

Contributions by

Erieta Attali

Vladimir Djurovic

Seng Kuan

Kengo Kuma

Andres Lepik

Ana Tostões

Authors' Biographies

Kengo Kuma was born in 1954 and established Kengo Kuma & Associates (KKAA) in 1990. He is currently a university professor and professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo and a member of the Japan Art Academy, following earlier teaching appointments at Keio University and the University of Tokyo. KKAA projects are presently underway in more than fifty countries. Among his most acclaimed works are the Japan National Stadium in Tokyo, the Takanawa Gateway Station, and the Asakusa Culture Tourist Information Center, as well as the V&A Dundee in Scotland.

Kuma proposes architecture that opens up new relationships between nature, technology, and human beings. He received the Architectural Institute of Japan Award in 1997 and was named Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France in 2009. In 2025, Kengo Kuma earned the Louis I. Kahn Award, recognizing his international architectural excellence.

His major publications include: Zen Shigoto: Kengo Kuma Zensakuhin (Kengo Kuma: The Complete Works, Tokyo: Daiwa Shobo, 2022), Ten, Sen, Men (Point, Line, Plane, Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 2020), Makeru Kenchiku / Architecture of Defeat (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 2002, and English edition, New York: Routledge, 2019), and Shizen na Kenchiku (Natural Architecture, Tokyo: Iwanami Shinsho, 2008).

Vladimir Djurovic, of Montenegrin descent, was born 1967 in Lebanon and pursued his studies abroad. He received his undergraduate degree in horticulture from the University of Reading in the United Kingdom and his master’s degree in landscape architecture from the University of Georgia’s College of Environment + Design in the United States. After working in the US for several years, Djurovic returned to Lebanon in 1995 to establish his landscape architectural practice.

Since its inception, Vladimir Djurovic Landscape Architecture (VDLA) has been committed to the creation of landscapes that draw out the uniqueness of environments with a simplicity of gesture that gives nature the stage. For thirty years, Vladimir has been working closely with select clients and architects, developing a notable body of work throughout the world.

More recently, he has focused his mission on projects that address the pressing environmental and social issues facing us today — projects that partner up with nature and pave the way for a muchneeded change in how we relate to it.

Djurovic has lectured at various venues, such as Imperial College London and Harvard University, and has been granted numerous awards, including an honor award in the residential design category from the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) and the prestigious Aga Khan Award for Architecture.

Erieta Attali is an architecture and fine art landscape photographer based in New York and Paris. She holds a PhD from RMIT University in Melbourne and has taught photography at Columbia University (2003–18) and the National University of Singapore (2021–23), among other leading academic institutions worldwide.

Attali has devoted herself to the interplay between architecture and landscape for the past three decades. Her photography explores how extreme conditions and challenging terrains cause humanity to reorient and recenter itself through architectural responses. Her unconventional photography is based on a working method inspired by her extensive experience in archaeology.

Currently an artist-in-residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, she is pursuing research at the Acad.mie d’Architecture, Place des Vosges, Paris. Her photographic research, which extends from Eurasia to Australia and the Americas, now turns to the archaeological landscapes of the ancient island of Delos, the Aegean archipelago, and to the sacred spaces of medieval and contemporary Japan.

Attali’s photography books have received prestigious international awards, and her work is included in major international museum collections and exhibitions. She is the author of Erieta Attali on the Felix-Nussbaum-Haus: Approaching Resistance (Stuttgart: Hartmann Books, 2026).