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the paper trail.(Japanese architect Shigeru Ban)(Interview)
Byline: Elisabeth Franck-dumas
Japanese architect Shigeru Ban's designs have acquired a reputation for their winning combination of formal elegance and functionality. Whether at the art gallery fronting Issey Miyake's headquarters in Tokyo or at the Paper Church he built in the rubble of Kobe in 1995, Ban's innovative use of cardboard tubes as building blocks have made him a household name of avant-garde architecture.
With his latest commission-the design of the Pompidou's first offshoot in Metz, France-Ban will get the chance to display his singular creativity and well-known practical streak. But with the temporary office he has built in Paris-a cardboard structure installed on a terrace of the Pompidou-Ban has already displayed his knack for unusual aesthetic solutions.
"I needed a space and a team," Ban says simply, as if this were the most natural thing in the world. "I had a lot of experience with temporary structures, so I thought this would be better than renting an office."
An elongated paper tube that mirrors a previous Ban design for the Hanover Expo, the space boasts a diminutive yet dramatic vaulted ceiling of cardboard arches and round ...
- Shigeru Ban ... was creating shrines out of sustainable materials when the word...
- Magazine article from: Interview Benhamou-Huet, Judith May 1, 2009 700+ words
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] SHIGERU BAN, international architecture superstar...and surrounded by a team of 10, Ban is currently working on his most...HUET: Where do you come from? SHIGERU BAN: From the Empire of the Rising Sun...
- Shigeru Ban: house, Shelter Island, New York, USA.(Dwelling)(Brief article)
- Magazine article from: The Architectural Review January 1, 2007 700+ words
...was inspired by a recent flight taken by its architect, Shigeru Ban, who while daydreaming at 37 000 feet, visualised a wing...successful or not, this house certainly extends Shigeru Ban's interest in the art of construction, with its ribbed...
- Seeing the future.(Shigeru Ban )(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: The Architectural Review Ryan, Raymund May 1, 2004 700+ words
SHIGERU BAN By Matilda McQuaid. London: Phaidon, 2003. [pounds sterling]45 'Shigeru Ban is the future', Frei Otto writes in his introduction to the work of this...
- SOLUTIONS: ROOFING - Hats off to Shigeru Ban's Pompidou-Metz.
- Magazine article from: Building Design April 13, 2007 700+ words
...sibling building in Metz, architect Shigeru Ban is concentrating not on celebrating...s own form-finding software. "Shigeru Ban will describe it as a very simple...technical problems that it creates." Ban's concept for the roof structure...
- Finishing school.(Alvar Aalto: Through the Eyes of Shigeru Ban )(Brief article)
- Magazine article from: Design Week Stones, John March 1, 2007 700+ words
...Alvar Aalto, 'through the eyes of Shigeru Ban', might suggest the use of designers...Perhaps the humanising delicacy of Ban could be harnessed for the Barbican...Alvar Aalto: Through the Eyes of Shigeru Ban runs until 13 May at the Barbican...
- Excesos de Arte/ Shigeru Ban: Mas que papel.(Vida)
- Newspaper article from: El Norte (México D.F., México) October 12, 2002 700+ words
...Entre las manos del arquitecto japons Shigeru Ban, sin embargo, el papel ha encontrado...distancias y de generar sublimes espacios. Ban, atrado por la naturaleza reciclable...higinico. Los primeros experimentos de Ban con los tubos de cartn se llevaron...
- Shigeru Ban.(Housing)(Brief article)
- Magazine article from: The Architectural Review May 1, 2008 700+ words
...an area of low-density housing. Tokyo and Paris based Shigeru Ban has responded with a four-storey terrace to the south...and loosen up in density. As has come to be expected of Ban, the development employs innovative forms of construction...
- Container art: Shigeru Ban's inventive yet frugal Nomadic Museum berths on the...
- Magazine article from: The Architectural Review Webb, Michael May 1, 2006 700+ words
...of the Venice Arsenale, and invited Shigeru Ban to design a prefabricated gallery in...environmentally sensitive, and for Ban it was a challenge to recycle commonplace...OMITTED] For the Nomadic Museum, Ban specified walls of used shipping containers...
- Shigeru Ban: Swatch headquarters, Tokyo, Japan.(Swatch Group Ltd. opens new...
- Magazine article from: The Architectural Review January 1, 2007 700+ words
...is joining the ranks, with this 14-storey building designed by the Toyko-based architect of paper and plastic, Shigeru Ban. The Nicolas G. Heyek Center, however, is not only a shop. It also provides accommodation for the new Swatch Group...
- Paper tiger: best known for his ingenious use of cardboard, architect Shigeru...
- Magazine article from: W Kerwin, Jessica April 1, 2006 700+ words
...Pompidou Center, Japanese architect Shigeru Ban looks a little bored. He wears a polite...am doing a project in New York," Ban trills in his heavily accented English...increasing momentum, the 48-year-old Ban, acclaimed for his graceful, experimental...
