Shigeru Ban
February 19, 2001
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1977-80 Southern California Institute of Architecture
1980-82 Cooper Union School of Architecture
1982-83 Worked for Arata Isozaki, Tokyo
1984 Received Bachelor of Architecture from Cooper Union
1995 Established an NGO: VAN (Voluntary Architect’s Network)
1996 Adjunct Professor of Architecture at Yokohama National University
1997 Adjunct Professor of Architecture at Nihon University
2000 Visiting professor at Columbia University
2001 Visiting fellow at Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture
His recent works: "House of Double Roof"(1993), "MDS Gallery"(1994), "Curtain Wall House"(1995), "Furniture House"(1995), "Paper Church"(1995), "Paper Loghouse"(1995), " Tazawako Station"(1997), "Wall-less House"(1997), "9 Square Grid House"(1997), "Hanegi Forest"(1997), "Paper Dome"(1998), "Ivy Structure House"(1998), "Ivy Structure #2"(2000), "Japan Pavilion for Expo 2000 Hannover (2000) , "GC Osaka Building(2000), Naked House(2000)
Major awards Ban has received in his career include the 3rd Kansai Architect Grand Prize of the Japan Institute of Architecture (JIA) in 1996, the JIA Prize for Best Young Architect of the Year in 1997 the Architectural Institute of Japan 18th Tohoku Architecture Prize in 1998, ar+d award frin the Architectural Review in 1999 and the Berlin Art Award in 2000.
As an author, he has published "Shigeru ban" (GG portfolio, Editorial Gustavo Gili, 1997), "Ban Shigeru"(JA Vol.30, Shin Kenchiku Sha, 1998) and "Paper Tube Architecture from Kobe to Rwanda"(Chikuma Shobo,1998), "Shigeru Ban, Projects In Process"(TOTO Shuppan, 1999)
Shigeru Ban Architects
5-2-4 Matsubara
Setagaya-ku Tokyo
156-0043 Japan
Tel: +81-3-3324-6760
Fax: +81-3-3324-6789
Email: SBA@tokyo.email.ne.jp
Projects
Paper Log House
Paper Emergency
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