Shigeru Ban: Complete Works 1985-2015

Shigeru Ban: Complete Works 1985-2015

<div id="description_text_headlines" class="margin-bottom"><strong>Paper palaces: Beauty meets basic human needs</strong></div> <div class="margin-bottom"> </div> <div class="description_text"> <div id="description_text" class="margin-bottom">From a house without walls to exhibition spaces in shipping containers, <strong>Shigeru Ban </strong>has constantly challenged architectural rule and expectation. In the age of the “starchitect,” he has also demonstrated an unremitting altruism in his practice: Over the course of his esteemed career, his <strong>inventive, elegant designs </strong>have been applied as much to private commissions as to <strong>emergency relief work </strong>at the sites of <strong>natural and man-made disasters</strong> around the world, from Kobe to New Orleans.<br /><br />For the Pritzer Prize jury, which chose Ban as its 2014 winner, the architect manifests <strong>“total curiosity and commitment; endless innovation; an infallible eye; an acute sensibility.”</strong> This updated monograph, <strong>compiled with the architect’s collaboration</strong>, <strong>brings together every one of Ban's built works</strong>, including such recent projects as the Tamedia headquarters in Zurich, the Aspen Art Museum, and the Cardboard Cathedral in Christchurch.</div> <div class="margin-bottom"> </div> <div class="margin-bottom">Text in English, French, and German</div> </div>