Shigeru Ban

Description

From emergency relief shelters to a cardboard cathedral and exhibition spaces in shipping containers, Pritzker Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban has made his name with his restlessly inventive response to material and situation, as much as with his humanitarian work at the sites of natural and man-made disasters. According to scholar Riichi Miyake, Ban’s work represents “an architectural iteration of Doctors Without Borders.”
In the spirit of three-dimensional poetry, Ban uses materials as an integral part of his design, selected not for their cutting-edge credentials but rather for their expressive ability, their capacity to convey the building’s overall concept. In particular, Ban has made regular use of paper tubing in projects as varied as the Japanese Pavilion at Expo 2000 in Hanover and emergency shelters for Rwanda’s Byumba Refugee Camp.
This essential introduction, compiled with Ban’s own collaboration, presents his most important projects to date, surveying the full reach and importance of, in the words of the Pritzker Prize jury, a “committed teacher who is not only a role model for younger generations, but also an inspiration.”

CONTENTS

Introduction
Alvar Aalto Exhibition
Villa K
Furniture House
Paper House
Curtain Wall House
Paper Log House
Paper Church
Wall-Less House
Paper Emergency Shelters for the UNHCR
Japan Pavilion
Naked House
Picture Window House
Atsushi Imai Memorial Gymnasium
Glass Shutter House
Shutter House for a Photographer
Paper Temporary Studio
Seikei University Library
Nomadic Museum
Papertainer Museum
Takatori Church
Maison E
Nicolas G. Hayek Center
Hualin Temporary Elementary School
Haesley Nine Bridges Golf Clubhouse
Centre Pompidou-Metz
Metal Shutter House
Villa Vista
Paper Concert Hall
Staff
World Map
Life and Work / Bibliography / Credits /The Author