Tag Shigeru Ban

05-01-2018

The Pont du Gard’s little brother: a cardboard tube bridge by Shigeru Ban

Shigeru Ban built a cardboard tube bridge with a view of the first century Roman bridge over the Gardon in Nimes

15-12-2017

Studio with paper tube shell in Kyoto and Paris – Shigeru Ban

Shigeru Ban’s prefabricated studio with a paper tube shell made by university students in Kyoto has been replicated in a construction site in Paris.

10-11-2017

Shigeru Ban’s curved wooden structure for the Golf Club in Yeoju, Gyeonggi, South Korea

Shigeru Ban’s structural signature curved wooden structures may be found in many of his projects, including the Golf Club in Yeoju, Gyeonggi, South Korea.

24-11-2016

The Japanese House. Architecture and life after 1945

The Japanese House. Architecture and life after 1945, the exhibition that opened on November 8 at MAXXI in Rome, takes visitors on a voyage of discovery of Japanese culture through home architecture and how it is interpreted by more than 50 Japanese architects.

24-06-2016

Japan, Archipelago of the House Exhibition in Amsterdam

The travelling exhibition Japan, Archipelago of the House, curated by architects Véronique Hours, Fabien Mauduit and Manuel Tardits, and by photographer Jérémie Souteyrat has recently opened at Looiersgracht 60 in Amsterdam. The exhibition is an investigation and research into "the Japanese house" in a physical, cultural and social context.

10-02-2016

Creation from Catastrophe exhibition at The Architecture Gallery, London

The works of Yasmeen Lari, ELEMENTAL, OMA, Shigeru Ban, NLÉ, Toyo Ito, Metabolism (Kenzo Tange and Kurokawa Kisho) and Sir Christopher Wren are examples of reconstruction projects following upon major disasters selected for the exhibition that opened recently at RIBA’s Architecture Gallery.

18-12-2015

What to see in Japan: houses in the city

How Japanese architecture has changed since the days of Arata Isozaki, Tadao Ando and Kazuyo Sejima. From Shigeru Ban to Hosaka Takeshi, the nature of the home in Japan. What to see in Japan: a voyage in discovery of the most interesting city homes.

04-11-2015

Interview with Shigeru Ban

Winner of the 2014 Pritzker Prize Shigeru Ban talks about his recent projects at the “Archi-Depot Tokyo” exhibition at Triennale di Milano. Shigeru Ban discusses his intuition of mobile screens for the Oita Prefectural Art Museum and his contribution to reconstruction after the earthquake in Nepal in April 2015.

30-09-2015

OMA-Rem Koolhaas and the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow

In June 2015 the doors opened on the new Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow, the latest example of the architectural philosophy of Rem Koolhaas (OMA) for places of culture and entertainment. The OMA project for the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow is located in the heart of the city’s Gorky Park.