Shigeru Ban
By Matilda McQuaid.
Description
Based in Japan and one of an emerging generation of young, world-class architects, Shigeru Ban (b.1957) designs and builds graceful, serene structures using modest and experimental materials such as cardboard, paper tubes, bamboo and prefabricated wood. His buildings are sometimes soaring and birdlike, sometimes simple, grounded, and evocative of the Japanese aesthetic, but always harmoniously integrated with, and respectful of, their surrounding environments. Ban has designed projects at both ends of the client spectrum: from one-room temporary houses made of paper tubes for earthquake ref...
ISBN(s)
0714841943, 9780714841946
